Revocable Living Trust Assets

Revocable Living Trust Assets: A Comprehensive Guide With a revocable living trust, you maintain control over your personal assets while you’re still living. After you pass away, you can select beneficiaries and a successor trustee to determine what will happen to the assets held in the trust—all without the assets having to go through probate.…

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Trusts

Understanding Trusts in Estate Planning Estate planning involves careful consideration of how your assets will be managed and distributed after your passing. One crucial tool in this process is a trust, a formal agreement that allows one person (the trustee) to hold assets for the benefit of another person or organization (the beneficiary). Trusts are…

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Trust Amendments vs. Restatements

In general, if the changes are minor, such as 1) adding or deleting specific bequests, 2) changing who will serve as successor trustee, or 3) updating a beneficiary’s or the successor trustee’s legal name due to marriage or divorce, then a simple trust amendment will be sufficient. There really aren’t any established written rules as…

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Primary Purpose of a Living Trust

Living Trust Primary Purpose of a Living Trust – Assets titled in the name of the trust avoid probate and provide privacy from the public in regards to your assets. In addition, a named trustee may serve to avoid having a guardian or conservator appointed for you by the state as you age or become…