Hello, my name is Annie Altman. My father, Jerry Altman, lived from October 4, 1950 until May 25, 2018. He loved sports, music, thrift shopping, and seeing his loved ones happy. I often wished and asked for him to be retired, especially due to his known heart conditions. Instead he died at age 67, while working more than overtime hours, including overnight road trips between St. Louis and Kansas City.

After my Dad’s death in 2018, his assets were supposed to fund a trust for my benefit. Instead, my “family” did nothing to fulfill his wishes and hid the existence of the trust from me. You can find a history of his estate in the court file and see for yourself their inaction on: ww.courts.mo.gov/casenet/

Case Number: 25SL-PR02320

In the time without the support my Dad intended for me, I was homeless for more than three years, began survival sex work, and managed Elhers-Danlos Syndrome, PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome), PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder), and more.

In 2024, St. Louis attorney Mike Gras helped show that the Trust did exist and I now receive monthly payments for my basic needs. These payments, that my Father intended for me to have after his death in 2018, allowed me to: finally have stable housing again after a 2021 home invasion, slowly stop the sex work I had begun for survival, and finally get major ankle surgery after seven straight years (and 12 years since the first walking boot) of pain. I am sharing this from my fourth week of recovery from said ankle surgery, where scar and other tissues were removed and an internal support was attached to my bones.

The Trust is currently being managed by Parkside Financial Bank & Trust in St. Louis. I have not received all of the information I am entitled to about the assets in the trust, especially concerning my siblings' company Hydrazine. Hydrazine is a company founded by my eldest sibling Sam, and my other siblings Max and Jack have been employees of Hydrazine, all of whom I went no contact with in 2020.

I filed a lawsuit in St. Louis County for their failure to fulfill my father's wishes, which can be found here: www.courts.mo.gov/fv/c/Petition.PDF?courtCode=21&di=30477202

Lawyers specialized in this kind of trust litigation require upfront retainers that are out of my capacity to afford. The court denied my request for the trust to cover my legal fees, so here I am.

Thank you for helping me protect my Dad's wishes and legacy.