Power of Attorney Does not Grant Right to Access Trust
Dear Mr. Premack: My mother signed a living trust agreement about ten years ago. She also signed a durable power of attorney. I am the alternate Trustee and am agent under the power of attorney. Mom was hospitalized recently. She’s doing ok, but I told her I’d help with paying her bills. I took the power of attorney to the bank so I could get on her account and they said because the account is held in trust I can’t use the power of attorney for the account. That doesn’t make