I will check around and see if there is still a version of the docs floating around, a lot of the old links are gone now, and I don't know if I kept a copy, but among other things they tried to appoint substitute trustees based on non existent powers of attorney, and then release the Deeds of Trust. They generally call that fraud where I come from.
The following is pretty much the standard boiler plate that comes in all DOT, if not they are controled by state statute which will say pretty much the same thing. The trustor doesn't appoint the first trustee either, except by signing the deed, the trusstee is nominated either by the lender, or again by state statute. Many states statutorially created a position of Public Trustee at county level who is part of the the County Clerks office, whose sole function is to oversee Deeds of Trust. If that is the case, there may not be anything in the DOT since the appointment is then controled by statute and there is no need for it. Since the office then holds the appointment rather than the person. The main reason being to prevent abuse.
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24. Substitute Trustee. Lender, at its option, may from time to time appoint a successor trustee to any Trustee appointed hereunder by an instrument executed and acknowledged by Lender and recorded in the office of the Recorder of the county in which the Property is located. The instrument shall contain the name of the original Lender, Trustee and Borrower, the book and page where this Security Instrument is recorded and the name and address of the successor trustee. Without conveyance of the Property, the successor trustee shall succeed to all the title, powers and duties conferred upon the Trustee herein and by Applicable Law. This procedure for substitution of trustee shall govern to the exclusion of all other provisions for substitution.
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http://www.ilrg.com/forms/deedoftrust.html
The foregoing or a variation of it is pretty much standard in all the TD's I have ever seen.
I think you are confusing a Trust with a Deed of Trust, they are similar in some respects, but some only. It is unlikely a court would intervene in a Deed of Trust appointment unless there was some serious law breach. If you have to compare the two, consider a Deed of Trust an irrevocable trust that the grantor gives up all control of from the moment of its signing. A trust is generally active from the moment of its creation, a Deed of Trust is dormant and non active unless and only if certain events take place.
A trust and its trustor only have such powers as either the trust itself, or statute allow, in general, if it isn't in the document or statute, you probably can't do it.
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