Living Trust Plan
Answers to common questions about our Living Trust Plan.
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How does a Living Trust Plan work?
A Living Trust Plan uses a combination of documents and strategies to manage and distribute your estate without probate. The primary document is a revocable "living" trust which contains instructions to appoint a trustee and distribute your assets. Other documents are included with this plan to fund the trust and assist the trustee to administer the estate.
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What documents are included?
These documents are included with a Living Trust Plan:
- Revocable ("living") trust
- Certificate of trust existence
- Authorization to disclose medical information
- Warranty deed to transfer real estate to trust
- Assignment of personal property to trust
- Agreement to transfer business assets to trust
- Trust funding instructions
- All documents needed by the trustee to administer the trust (trustee instructions, acceptance of trust, certificate of trust, notice to beneficiaries, and notice to creditors)
- Pour-over will
- Power of attorney
- Healthcare directive
- Appointment of guardian
- Appointment of funeral representative
- Estate planning roadmap
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Who is this plan designed for?
A Living Trust Plan is suitable for anyone who meets these criteria:
- Desires to avoid probate
- Wants to appoint a person to manage and distribute their estate
- Has minor children, or multiple adult beneficiaries, or relatively complex distribution plans for their property
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What are the benefits of this plan?
A Living Trust Plan is designed to provide these benefits (which may vary in each case):
- Avoid probate proceedings
- Reduce cost and complexity of estate administration
- Coordinate assets to work with estate planning documents for maximum benefit
- Designate any number of beneficiaries, and the age at which they will receive property
- Designate personal property to be given to specific persons
- Make charitable gifts
- Provide care and support for beneficiaries
- Protect property from waste by beneficiaries
- Protect property from beneficiaries' creditors
- Disinherit specific persons
- Manage property for persons under disability or with substance abuse problems
- Appoint a trustee to manage property for beneficiaries
- Appoint an agent under power of attorney to make financial decisions, and handle digital assets
- Appoint a patient advocate to make medical decisions, including withdrawal of life support
- Appoint a guardian to care for minor or adult children
- Appoint a funeral representative to carry out your funeral and burial instructions
- Prevent family disputes
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What services do we provide?
We provide the following services with this plan:
- Consultation to create your plan
- Custom document drafting
- Consultation to review documents
- Witness and notarize documents
- Deed recording
- Document binding
- Scan documents to flash drive
- Delivery of original documents and copy on flash drive
- Follow-up consultations as necessary to implement plan
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How much does this plan cost?
Our fees for this plan -
Single Person: $2,450
Two Persons: $2,750