Estate planning attorneys use trusts to solve all sorts of problems for their clients. Any time there is a trust, there must be a trustee - the person who manages the assets in a trust. This post, along with the next several ones, will talk about what it means to be a trustee. Wait, what's a trust again? A trust is an agreement in which the grantor designates a trustee to manage assets for the beneficiary. One person might fill more than one of these roles. In a revocable living trust ...