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to answer these questions fully you need to know some vocabulary don't worry it's only two words trust store and trustee i've covered these words in detail in our revocable living trust in plain english video but if you haven't seen that i'll quickly summarize it here the trust store is the person or persons who created the trust and they put their assets into it sometimes called a grantor whereas the trustee is the person or persons who manage whatever assets are actually held within that trust so who has authority to make changes or revoke the trust later on if your instincts tell you the trust store then you're right trust stores not only create the trust but they retain the authority to make changes to the trust's provisions or to revoke it entirely if they wish the trustees powers are comparatively limited here trustees can only manage the assets in the trust according to the terms of the trust set out by the trust store and the trustee operates in the best interest of the beneficiary or beneficiaries the trustee cannot make changes to a trust in their capacity as trustee though thus to answer the question of whether a trustee can change my trust without me no with an asterisk everything i've told you so far is true but there are some common situations to be aware of if you're interested in setting up a revocable living trust or if you already have the first is what happens when the trust stores have all passed away if the trustors have all passed then the trust becomes irrevocable since the only ones with authority to revoke it are well dead if the trust stores were also the trustees at the time which they often are then a new successor trustee will take over the trustee position someone the trust stores selected when they created the trust initially that successor trustee does not have authority to make changes to that trust however if a successor trustee finds the trust store or trust stores executed an amendment under undue influence coercion or duress then they can petition a court to find the particular amendment void and the trust terms revert to the prior terms next is where we have more than one trustor typically a married couple the trust can specify otherwise but usually upon the death of one spouse the surviving trust or spouse retains the authority to amend or revoke the trust we'll cover this topic in more detail in a later video but know that this is generally done to keep a marital estate simplified and not created by forcing a split of the assets early distributions where one spouse may still depend on those assets and to avoid potentially unnecessary taxes and administrative hassle just know that spouses often create a trust together they will be both trust stores and co-trustees of said trust and unless the trust specifies otherwise the survivor among them has...