 I've been practicing estate planning for over 25 years, and most of the things that come through the door I've seen many times before, until last week, for the first time someone came in and their mom had a trust, an old trust, done many years ago. And that trust named daughter as the backup trustee to mom. Mom is now incapacitated and an old woman. My daughter has taken over as trustee. And so the daughter came in saying, would you please clean up this trust? There's some things that will benefit the laws, et cetera, that this trust of my mother's needs to be cleaned up. So I said, sure, let's look at it. And she said, by the way, I have done a couple of years ago a durable power of attorney. A durable power of attorney allows trusted individuals to sign your name to things for financial transactions if you are unable to. And the mother being incapacitated was unable to sign her name to things. Anyway, the daughter said, would you please amend the trust? And I know you'll have to do it under the durable power of attorney because the durable power of attorney of my mom's permits amending the trust. And I looked at it and sure enough it did. The problem is, under California law, the durable power of attorney could permit amending the trust. But if the trust doesn't say that's allowable, then it doesn't matter what the durable power says. We can't amend mom's trust. So what do we do? What did I do? Obviously, daughters in charge of their trust. So we made sure that daughter was a proper trustee of mom's trust and the assets in mom's trust. Then I'm creating a brand new trust for mom under mom's durable power. Remember I said that durable power of attorney would permit the creation of a new trust? So I'm creating a new trust and then having the daughter as trustee transfer the assets from the old trust to the new trust where she also is trustee with newer laws and updates and better protection. The point is, you can't amend a trust under a durable power of attorney unless the trust also permits it and mom's trust had never been reviewed and it didn't permit that. I'm glad we could solve that problem but those problems can be avoided with a proper review of your estate plan.