Does a trust beneficiary have to pay their own attorney fees if they successfully challenge the trustee's conduct?

"Trust beneficiaries must ordinarily pay their own attorney fees in challenging the trustee's conduct, even when they are successful." (Leader v. Cords (2010) 182 Cal.App.4th 1588, 1595 (Leader).) Section 17211, subdivision (b), provides an exception to this rule by "giv[ing] the probate court discretion to award attorney fees to a trust beneficiary who 'contests the trustee's account,' if the court determines the trustee's opposition to the contest was 'without reasonable cause and in bad faith.'"¹¹

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