ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
My mom is the beneficiary of my grandma’s house and my daughter is the trustee of the trust of which the house is part of. My mom is telling my daughter that she is financially obligated to pay the house taxes out of her own money. I understood it as my daughter is obligated to make sure that the house taxes are paid but the money either comes from the trust or my mom.
ANSWER BY MARGARET CROSS-BELIVEAU:
No, trustees are not responsible for paying trust fees from their personal assets. The terms of the trust should lay out how the expenses are to be paid from the trust. If the trust only owns the real estate and the beneficiary is not willing to pay for the upkeep and expenses of the home, it would be the trustee’s duty to sell the real estate in order to safeguard the trust assets for the beneficiary.
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