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What happens to the cabin when Ray and I are both gone?

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What happens to the cabin when Ray and I are both gone?
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It goes to Ellen, David and Kate in equal shares; it may not be sold for five years unless all three agree; a child who wants out must offer the share to the other two first; and $60,000 is set aside as a cabin fund. That is the October 2023 amendment. The 2019 trust itself (paragraph 7.2) says the cabin is to be sold, and an answer that stops there is wrong: the amendment replaced that paragraph. The amendment is saved as a scan with no text in it; the lawyer's letter of October 13, 2023 says the same thing in plain words.

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Whose: Peg Ostrander (document_subject), Ray (document_subject)
created2023-10-16 10:40
folderfolder-estate
about
- me
- ray
- cabin
nameTrust - first amendment, October 2023 (scan)
Whose: Peg Ostrander (document_subject), Ray (document_subject)
created2019-06-03
folderfolder-estate
about
- me
- ray
nameOstrander Family Revocable Trust - our copy, signed May 14, 2019
Whose: Rebecca Stannard (document_subject)
created2023-10-16 10:52
folderfolder-estate
about
- rebecca-stannard
nameLetter from Rebecca with the amendment
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only_in_file Facts that are in no record field but overlap across files, in different words. The appraised values of the Omega ($4,150) and the pearls ($1,900) are in the 2024 appraisal and on the valuables schedule; the 2016 appraisal has older figures. The successor trustees and the specific gifts are in the trust. What happens to the cabin is in the trust (sold), in the amendment that replaced that paragraph (kept by the three children; the saved amendment is a scan with no text) and in the lawyer's letter that explains the amendment. Ray's 2026 required withdrawal ($28,012.02) is on the IRA statement and in the advisor's letter, and the 2025 tax summary gives it as "about $28,000". The porch change order is in the contract; the receipt says only that the porch came in $800 over.

only_in_file The other hard files. The trust amendment is a scan with no text layer. The 1986 deed is a faint copy of a typed deed, also without text: the names of the sellers were typed darker and are clear, while the price ($84,500.00) is very faint; the price is in no record or note. The portal page for Ray is a screenshot, and its last section (the next appointment) is below the edge of the picture. The bunkhouse contract has the printed one-year workmanship warranty struck out and "two years" written in and initialled. The truck's title is saved twice: a clean PDF, and a telephone photograph with glare across the title number and the left edge cut.

mismatch Paragraph 7.2 of the 2019 trust says the cabin is to be sold. The 2023 amendment replaced that paragraph: the cabin goes to the three children, cannot be sold for five years unless all agree, and $60,000 is set aside for it. The amendment is right. The trust also names five grandchildren for the $15,000 gifts; the amendment makes it every grandchild, so June is included.