"My Dad Wants Me To Give Him My $300,000 Trust"

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🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 127 minutes

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0:26.2	Normal is broke and common sense is weird, so we're here to help you with your life.
0:31.5	From the Ramsey Network and the Fair Winds Credit Union studio, this is The Ramsey Show.
0:36.0	I'm Dave Ramsey, your host, Ken Coleman, number one bestselling author, Ramsey personality, and host of Front Row Seat, one of our more popular Ramsey Network shows.
0:41.5	He's MichaelO's today.
0:43.2	Open phones here at AAA-825-225.
0:47.5	Jack is in Little Rock, Arkansas.
0:50.0	Hi, Jack.
0:50.5	How are you?
0:52.3	Doing well.
0:53.0	Thank you, Dave and Ken. Thank you for taking a call. Sure. What's up? Yeah, Jack. How are you? Doing well. Thank you, Dave and Ken.
0:54.3	Thank you for taking the call.
0:55.3	Sure. What's up?
0:57.5	Yeah, so basically my grandfather had passed away about five years ago,
1:04.7	and he had left a trust to his three children,
1:10.2	and basically the way it had been set up is that after
1:16.5	my father passed away, um, I would receive a lump sum. Um, each of those, uh, each
1:25.5	sibling got a lump sum payment from that trust. However, for my dad,
1:32.8	he has been historically been bad with money and it was set up for him that he would receive
1:42.4	payments annually in the trust.
1:46.3	And then once he passes away, I would receive the lump sum.
1:51.7	And after this, he is basically saying that he wants to have me sign a document that releases the trust to him, and he plans to
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