Question: My wife and I have a family joint revocable trust, in which my daughter and her husband are the trustees. However, they do not want to do this job. My wife and I paid a lot of money, $36,000 for unlimited help, to our current elder lawyers, to get this trust and all our legal papers drawn up here in Florida. The lawyers who did our trust said that they could be the trustees, but it would cost $30,000 to $35,000 in addition.

My question is, even though our trust was prepared by them, would we be able to go to another kind of firm, that would possibly be a little less expensive (have no idea) to get professional trustees (and executors) without having the whole trust redone? We have no one else in our family, or close friends, who would be able, or even willing to do this. Most of them are our age anyway and have their own families and headaches.