Christie

In probate court, nothing speaks more eloquently or provides more insight into factual and legal issues than an accounting.

Here the probate court lacked sufficient information to mle on three consolidated cases involving a trust. It determined that an accounting could well serve that purpose. We conclude the probate court’s general power to supervise administration of trusts permits it to order a trustee’s accounting on its own motion. We further conclude that such an order standing alone is not appealable.

Danita Christie, a trustee, appeals an order requiring her to file an accounting to document trust assets. We affirm.

FACTS

In 1991, Paul and Mary Schwarz were trustees of the Schwarz Family Trust. The trust provided that upon their death, their daughters Christie and Paulette Kimball would become successor trastees.

Paul Schwarz died in 1999, and Mary Schwarz became the “sole Trustor, Trustee and lifetime beneficiary” of the family trust.

*1410 On May 23, 2005, Mary Schwarz amended the trust to provide that Christie would be “the beneficiary of all the trust property.” In that amendment she also stated, “It is my express wish that [Christie] shall hold half…