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You can incorporate a trust for your grandchildren in your Will. You can state who will be the trustee or co-trustees. You can appoint people as a trust protector or to a trust advisory committee. You can write a letter to the trustee or co-trustees expressing your intent that the trustee or co-trustees consult with certain professionals or even continue to have the funds managed by a certain professional. Your estate planning attorney can help you do this right.  

The proper place to bring up this issue would be in the court administering the probate estate, as that court has jurisdiction over the estate personal representative and is able to address his or her inactions. Accordingly, you probably need to file a petition with the probate court that is administering the estate and raise the issue to be reviewed by the Court. I suggest that you meet with an attorney who can review the papers that have been filed in the probate case to see if the personal representative received authority from the court to allow the estate property to be foreclosed.

Where there is no will in California, the surviving spouse has rights to inherit, the amount depending on whether or not there are children. Beneficiary usually means someone who takes under an insurance policy. You should consult a local attorney, being clear about your financial condition, until you find someone who will intervene on financial terms you can afford or on a deferred basis.