My wife's family has 5 siblings - and both parents passed away in the past couple of years. There's been a lot of turmoil over the family's holdings of real estate - homes, condos, commercial buildings.
The family is fairly close, local to each other, etc - but the Trustees (brother & sister) have done a lot behind the scenes to clean up the paper mees, and get things in order for both of the estates, along with the ongoing conversion to Trusts.
Anyway - we have some of the papers indicating where and how things have evolved, but missing a lot of the roadmap and connect the dots - Convey to Trust, Bank statements/balances, etc I only know of a portion - since my wife is a trustee of one of the trusts.
When asked for details of the family holdings and ongoing financial & legal paperwork, the other sibling trustee basically says - you don't need to know, and I don't have to tell you anything -
Is this right ? It's really hard to get all 5 plus spouses together without it degenerating into a shouting match :(