to act in respect of the trust property, but may only act at the direction of (in effect, as agents for) the beneficiaries,” In re Grand Jury Subpoena, 973 F.2d 45, 48 (1st Cir.1992). The trustee is "frequently seen as [an] agent[] for the principals' convenience rather than as [a] trustee[ ] in the more familiar fiduciary sense.” Roberts v. Roberts, 419 Mass. 685, 688, 646 N.E.2d 1061 (1995) (quoting Apahouser Lock & Sec. Corp. v. Carvelli, 26 Mass.App.Ct. 385, 388, 528 N.E.2d 133 (1988)); see Zoppo v. Zoppo, 453 F.Supp.2d 232, 234 (D.Mass.2006) (Tauro, J.) ("[N]ominee trusts are defined by total control of the present beneficiary, with the trustee simply an agent obligated to hold the property.”); Zuroff v. First Wis. Trust Co., 41 Mass.App.Ct. 491, 493 n. 3, 671 N.E.2d 982 (1996) (<HOLDING>). The beneficiaries have the right to
holding that treating trust rather than trustee as attorneys client is inconsistent with the law of trusts holding that a chapter 7 trustee was the only person with authority to bring  a cause of action after the appointment of a trustee holding that the trustee of a nominee trust functions more as an agent than as a true trustee holding that a trustee properly withheld trust payments owed to a prior trustee who had misappropriated trust funds holding that trust beneficiaries have no authority to maintain an action as third party beneficiaries of contracts between the trustee and agents of the trustee concerning the internal affairs of the trust