Chapter 20 - THE TRUST SHRINKS
By the time Osric was twenty, the $31 million trust had changed.
Investments grew.
Expenses.
Taxes.
Charitable distributions.
Grandpa’s descendants expanded.
New great-grandchildren were born.
The two original fifty-percent branch expectations adjusted under the equalization formula.
Good.
No child remained frozen as “half heir” forever.
That was the point.
The trust modernized.
Lucienne’s lifetime income remained.
Independent advisers replaced family hierarchy.
Family-education budget shrank.
More distributions became direct education, health, and opportunity support approved by professional trustees.
The event estate shifted partly into charitable use.
No throne.
No succession ceremony.
No primary descendant.
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The phrase disappeared from official records.
Exactly where it belonged.
