When someone who is a trustee of a family trust dies, the legal ownership of any trust property — such as land or a house — needs to be updated.
This post explains what steps you need to take about (a) recording the trustee’s death and, perhaps, appointing a replacement trustee, and (b) updating the land title.
This post applies to New Zealand ‘family trusts’ established by trust deeds. It does not apply to ‘whānau trusts’ established by an order of the Māori Land Court.
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