I am the trustee on my deceased mothers trust/ estate.  I am in CA, she lived in NV.  

My mother made the trust a spendthrift trust, as she put it, to protect us from liabilities.  My brother, the other beneficiary, owes back child support and is generally a mess.  I'm unsure if he has mental health issues, drug additions issues or both.  He has paranoia and anger management problems.  When our mother died, he had an armed 3rd party come to the house as a threatening presence (He had lived with my mother, and I was there as a caretaker when she passed) and long story short, I needed to file a TPO against my brother.

Now he is in another state, and I am in my home state and I am coming to a place in administration where funds would be payable.   There is no schedule of payments, and it is my understanding if he asks for funds, I pay them.  Thing is, he won't talk to me.  He won't answer emails, and I do not call him as I want all communication with him in some recordable form for my protection.  Instead, he has his ex wife message me.  I have told her this is not legal form of communication, and he needed to contact me directly, but he wont.  He feels if he does, I will have him arrested.

The TPO was in NV and expired over a year ago.  I have no wishes to see him or speak on the phone, but still need to conduct this business.  There is also a separate investment account I sent him the information on a year ago, but he has never contacted them to claim his portion.

I'm unclear my rights and responsibilities here.  I really would love to be able to just write a check and never speak to him again, but being the type of trust it is, it seems to me I need to continue to sit on it and administer until he asks for a payment.  Instead he has other people contact me telling me how I won't pay him and how he lives in his car and basically how he is a victim of my abuse.  Now, I know the truth and am not buying into any of that, but how, legally, must I manage this situation?
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My brother is a spendthrift and I am the executor of the trust. He won't talk
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I am the trustee on my deceased mothers trust/ estate.  I am in CA, she lived in NV.  

My mother made the trust a spendthrift trust, as she put it, to protect us from liabilities.  My brother, the other beneficiary, owes back child support and is generally a mess.  I'm unsure if he has mental health issues, drug additions issues or both.  He has paranoia and anger management problems.  When our mother died, he had an armed 3rd party come to the house as a threatening presence (He had lived with my mother, and I was there as a caretaker when she passed) and long story short, I needed to file a TPO against my brother.

Now he is in another state, and I am in my home state and I am coming to a place in administration where funds would be payable.   There is no schedule of payments, and it is my understanding if he asks for funds, I pay them.  Thing is, he won't talk to me.  He won't answer emails, and I do not call him as I want all communication with him in some recordable form for my protection.  Instead, he has his ex wife message me.  I have told her this is not legal form of communication, and he needed to contact me directly, but he wont.  He feels if he does, I will have him arrested.

The TPO was in NV and expired over a year ago.  I have no wishes to see him or speak on the phone, but still need to conduct this business.  There is also a separate investment account I sent him the information on a year ago, but he has never contacted them to claim his portion.

I'm unclear my rights and responsibilities here.  I really would love to be able to just write a check and never speak to him again, but being the type of trust it is, it seems to me I need to continue to sit on it and administer until he asks for a payment.  Instead he has other people contact me telling me how I won't pay him and how he lives in his car and basically how he is a victim of my abuse.  Now, I know the truth and am not buying into any of that, but how, legally, must I manage this situation?
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My brother is mentally ill, has never paid me child support, and has money in a
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