the children would always have loose change in the bank but any serious withdrawals would require his counter signature before the transaction went ahead , with the situations being reassessed every year on their birthdays , and the trusts seemed to have worked fine , until robins birthday six weeks ago , as he was now married i released the full amount to him , but alice apparently had then assumed that i would do the same thing for her on her birthday a couple of weeks ago , and promised bertha untold gifts .