Crisostomo

INTRODUCTION

Gerino Crisostomo, his brother Claude Crisostomo, and their sister Belinda Kai were the beneficiaries of their parents’ trust. After their parents died, Claude, as successor trustee, and Belinda, as a beneficiary, filed a petition in the probate court for orders instructing Claude to market and sell the trust’s only asset, their parents’ former residence. Over Gerino’s objection, the court granted the petition. Gerino, representing himself, appeals from the order granting that petition. We affirm.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

In 1989 Clodualdo and Belen Crisostomo executed a revocable living trust providing that, upon the death of the surviving settlor, trust assets would be distributed in equal shares to the couple’s children: Claude, Gerino, and Belinda. Clodualdo and Belen died in 2018, and under the terms of the trust, Claude became the successor trustee. The trust’s sole asset was residential property on Tracy Street where Clodualdo and Belen lived for many years. Claude and Belinda lived there until they finished college; Gerino has lived there his entire life. The property’s appraised value was $1.2 million. In August 2018 Claude and Belinda filed a…