Q: My brother-in-law recently passed away and his adult children are co-successor trustees. My husband and I are helping empty the house he has owned for 20 years to go up for sale. My brother-in-law kept a file on every repair or improvement to the property. Yesterday, one co-trustee stopped by and said, “Because we are successor trustees and never lived at this house, we don’t have to disclose anything,” and added, “It’s a trust sale.”
When we sold our house, we filled out two dozen pages of seller questionnaires. Our seller’s agent had also compiled documented improvements and repairs as a disclosure package accompaniment.
Should these co-trustees get a