Trust Scams

Scams involving living trusts are, unfortunately, very common.  In Living-trust scams: all too alive and well in Illinois, 94 Ill. B.J. 644 (2006), Helen W. Gunnarsson discusses some of the tactics used by trust mills to scam people into creating trusts.  Ms. Gunnarsson also discusses the recent Indiana case of Indiana State Bar Assoc. v. Northouse, 848 N.E. 2d 668 (Ind. 2006), in which the court held that “[d]rafting and preparing testamentary and trust documents is clearly the practice of law.”