Since the new Trustee, Meyers, didn't return phone calls, to keep my sister and I informed on our Dad's Trust Accounting, I called the Supervisor over the trustees in Nebraska and Iowa, Steve Stroud of Des Moines. I had visited with him at his office in Des Moines, October 24, 2002. I explained my concerns, due to how Trustee John Meyers was joining in with my brother's Attorney Swanson by not allowing my sister and I to have communication with our Mother. We were not being informed on Dad's Trust 1/2 Interest in the farmland. Dad's Trust was to get 1/3 of the farm Income, and my brother was farming it, with the machinery that was passed on to our Mother after Dad's death, 4/27/01. My Mother was to get 1/3 of the annual Farm Income and the brother to get 1/3 of the Farm Income. All expenses were to be shared equally, too.
This was set up by the Trust Atty Eich, after my Dad's death. Therefore, 1/2 of the Farmland made up, of the 675,000 excemption, and Cash Assets, with Edward Jones made up the difference to equal 675,000. The most productive of the Assets are to be used in the Excemption. This was how the Trust Agreement that my Dad had done, read and the Trust Attorney was following that Agreement.
After explaining all this to Steve Stroud, I then, asked that we be given another Trustee at Firstar Bank. Steve said that he would be talking to Trustee John Meyers and would get back to me.
When he called me, after talking to Trustee Meyers, he asked that we give John Meyers another chance.
I contacted Bankers Trust Co. in Des Moines, regarding the Trustees responsibilites. I spoke with a Sharon Grafft. Sharon said that Trustee, Meyers should have the annual accounting (as trustee) done by end of January, for 2002.
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