Estates, Trusts,Accountings,money management
Conservatorships, Care Management,Elder Financial Abuse Investigations
Trustcare Fiduciary Services
Our Fiduciary Duty to You
- To be a Fiduciary, is to be unfailingly loyal to the instructions and wishes our client, settlor, beneficiaries, and/or conservatee has given.
- To collect and inventory all assets
- Obtain fair market values
- Prepare and have ready accountings of assets (generally reviewed annually)
- Identify and locate beneficiaries
- Manage, protect and invest assets
- Open appropriate financial accounts
- Open safe-deposit box
- Pay debts and expenses
- Insure the filing of tax returns and payment of taxes--federal and state
- Meticulously record all payments
- Distribute remaining assets to the proper beneficiaries
- Communicate with beneficiaries impartially
Fiduciaries Never Do the Following
- Co-mingle trust funds with personal funds
- Loan trust assets without proper documentation and security
- Receive assets in their own name
- Make final distribution of trust assets before obtaining waivers, receipt, and releases from the beneficiaries; or
- Invest trust funds outside of the Prudent Investor Act requirements.