Chapter 8 - LILY LEARNED WHAT HER TRUST ACTUALLY WAS
At eighteen, Samantha sat with her.
The trust had grown.
Around $14 million plus investment interests.
Lily looked overwhelmed.
“So Vanessa tried to take this?”
Samantha corrected:
“She and Richard tried to create paid authority around parts of your care and trust-related spending. They could not simply withdraw principal.”
Accuracy.
Then:
“So all that for fees?”
“Fees. Control. Status. Resentment.”
Then:
“People are weird.”
Correct.
Then she learned Emma’s amendment.
Read:
No family caregiver should be paid merely because love became inconvenient.
Emma had sharp writing.
Then Lily laughed.
“She was savage.”
Daniel smiled.
“She was.”
Then she looked at me.
“You okay hearing him talk about her?”
“Yes.”
Because love not contest.
Then she kept professional trustee.
No early direct control.
Studied architecture? Let's choose documentary film? But no trauma mapping. She loved veterinary medicine maybe. No need.
She became landscape architect.
Funny given torn dress? unrelated.
Then at twenty-five she could nominate advisory trustee.
She chose financial professional.
Not Daniel.
Daniel said:
May you like
“Good.”
Growth.
