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Right to information about a trust - Help please

Crashtogether
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Good evening
When i was young my parents opened up a trust for me for the duration of 25 years. They set the trust up for my benefit but I don't have access until the end of the term.
Since establishing my parents have divorced (on amicable terms) - however my father has always controlled the trust and has for a long time not provided any detail to either myself or my mother about the performance and indeed operation of the trust. I questioned him about it again today in a very open manner and he yet again brushed me aside saying "It's complicated".
I have never believed that it is actually complicated and even if it is, I have become very suspecious of his attempts not to explain the trust to me. I now have very serious concerns that my father is forging the siganture of my mother (to her detriment in a number of ways) in order to control the trust himself instead of both of them controlling the trust. My mother (herself and intelligent woman) has been left in the dark for many years as to the running of the trust.
Does anybody know of any ways I can prove any of this? (bearing in mind that I am still dealing with family and don't want to upset / cause any tenions). The fund is worth approx £25,000 which to me is a very substantial amount of money.
Thanks
When i was young my parents opened up a trust for me for the duration of 25 years. They set the trust up for my benefit but I don't have access until the end of the term.
Since establishing my parents have divorced (on amicable terms) - however my father has always controlled the trust and has for a long time not provided any detail to either myself or my mother about the performance and indeed operation of the trust. I questioned him about it again today in a very open manner and he yet again brushed me aside saying "It's complicated".
I have never believed that it is actually complicated and even if it is, I have become very suspecious of his attempts not to explain the trust to me. I now have very serious concerns that my father is forging the siganture of my mother (to her detriment in a number of ways) in order to control the trust himself instead of both of them controlling the trust. My mother (herself and intelligent woman) has been left in the dark for many years as to the running of the trust.
Does anybody know of any ways I can prove any of this? (bearing in mind that I am still dealing with family and don't want to upset / cause any tenions). The fund is worth approx £25,000 which to me is a very substantial amount of money.
Thanks
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