Following Whittlesey v. Aiello (2002) 104 Cal.App.4th 1221 and Terry v. Conlan (2005) 131 Cal.App.4th 1445, this decision affirms an order denying a trustee payment from the trust of attorney fees that the trustee incurred in defending against one putative beneficiary’s suit to invalidate an amendment to the trust. The challenge to the amendment would not, even if successful, have invalidated the trust as a whole, but would merely have changed the distribution of trust assets among the trust beneficiaries. A trustee must remain neutral in disputes between beneficiaries. Here, the trustee took sides, trying to secure a judgment favorable to his children who were trust beneficiaries. Hence, he was not entitled to reimbursement of his attorney fees.