Revocable Trusts Placing a home into a revocable living trust is a popular strategy to avoid probate. However, since you are technically transferring the home’s title from yourself as an individual to the trust as a separate legal entity, the transfer may void the...
What Happens to Accounts and Property Left Out of Your Trust? For many people, avoiding a conservatorship or guardianship during their lifetime and probate at their death are the main reasons they set up a revocable living trust. You may believe that once you sign...
What Does It Mean to Fund Your Trust? Funding a trust is the process of transferring ownership of your accounts and property from you as an individual to yourself as the trustee of your trust. Although the trust will technically own the accounts and property after the...