Trust companies look at a variety of factors in deciding whether to accept trusts for administration. While a well-crafted estate plan, funded with straight-forward, traditional assets, created for the benefit of amicable beneficiaries is the ideal new account to onboard, even the best laid plans can be thwarted when an unforeseen fight erupts between the beneficiaries or against their new trustee. Assets once intended for children, grandchildren or charities are instead spent on attorney fees in extended lawsuits. Setting expectations with living settlors and beneficiaries in advance, documenting the settlor’s capacity, and including in terrorem clauses may prevent the fight in the first place. Mandatory arbitration provisions offer an alternative to a courtroom, but there is no one-size-fits-all solution for resolving these fights.