Parents used to live in New Mexico, and put together Advanced Health Care Directive, DPOA, and a Revocable Trust. Stepdad passed away in April, he was the trustee and now I am the successor Trustee of the Trust, my Mom is the grantor (who has dementia and is currently living in a memory care place in my home state) A local trust attorney has mentioned that we need to revamp/update all the legal documents to be compliant with TN law, except so far I haven't run into ANYONE questioning the documents. No doctors have had an issue, the bank didn't have a problem, the memory care facility is fine with them. So I'm wondering if this is going to be a big waste of MONEY from her trust that could be used towards her care instead. The bill just to review and discuss the documents is the same amount that we pay towards the caregiving company that takes mom to some of her weekly outings: library, senior center for game day, the gym for her training sessions etc. Any input would be appreciated, I feel like she's being swindled to pay a lot of money to update paperwork that may not even need it.
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