My laugh for the day came when I re-read a recent question by a forum participant who needs some financial advice, but who expressed some misgivings in his/her quest for help, writing: "...there must be services that will do it, it's just that financial services are a hive of scum and villainy so we must be cautious." Very well put, I thought, and the words echo my current dilemma: I need a good specialist in trusts (financial or legal?), but how do I find someone I can trust? Thanks.
I would start with your local directory online for Trust and Estate Attorney. If you have anything like a neighborhood help group online either through nextdoor or facebook, a call out to your neighbors for a good attorney will help. If you have friends at work as them who they used and if they were happy with their results. Check out attorneys with your local bar assn. to check on any cases against an attorney.
I can't know the size of your area, but I have a choice of so many in my own area, and have neither with our own Trust work, nor with my brothers, and then settling his estate, had a problem with any of the attorneys. When you think of it, problems with an attorney means they could lose their licenses, and certainly they would be loathe to do THAT.