Chapter 10 - The trust they wanted me to rewrite
My daughter’s mother, Elena Lucchesi, died when Mina was two.
Before her death, Elena and I created a trust.
Not because Mina had a disability.
Because we had significant assets and wanted structure.
The Mina Lucchesi Family Trust held:
A life-insurance payout from Elena.
A portfolio I funded.
A minority interest in two real estate entities.
Funds earmarked for:
Education.
Healthcare.
Accessibility.
Independent living.
Long-term support if needed.
I was trustee.
My sister Sofia was successor trustee.
Not Veronica.
Not Greta.
The trust also contained an important provision:
Certain distributions and ownership interests remained outside control of any future spouse of mine.
Reasonable estate planning.
Veronica knew about it because we had discussed prenuptial planning.
She did not know every number.
Greta apparently did.
How?
A draft financial disclosure prepared for our prenup had been sent to Veronica’s attorney.
Legitimately.
That disclosure mentioned the trust’s existence and approximate asset categories.
Greta took the information and built a theory:
The trust was “locking away” valuable assets that could otherwise support a broader family consolidation.
It was not.
The assets belonged to the trust structure created for Mina.
But Greta saw them as capital unavailable to her plan.
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That was what Mina had heard.
“If the girl remains protected, none of this works.”
