Online Living Trust: How a Living Trust Helps Your Family

You can save your family a great deal of time and money by creating a basic living trust.

Online Living Trust: How a Living Trust Works

During your life, you retain full control of the property in your living trust.

Online Living Trust: What Living Trusts Cannot Do

Living trusts are useful and powerful documents, but they do have limitations.

Drawbacks of a Living Trust

Before you make a living trust, you should know the downsides.

Online Living Trust: Other Ways to Avoid Probate

Living trusts are not the only way to avoid probate.

Backup and Pour-Over Wills

A will is a useful companion to a living trust.

Online Living Trust: Is a Shared Trust Right for You?

Couples should consider whether they want to make individual trusts or a shared trust.

Sample Individual Living Trust

Here is an example of a Nolo living trust, made for a fictional person.

Online Living Trust: Making A Certification of Trust

Banks and other institutions may ask to see your living trust--show them your trust abstract instead.

Online Living Trust: Who Are the Trustees and What Do They Do?

For now, you are the trustee of your online living trust. After you die or become incapacitated, a successor trustee will manage trust property.

Online Living Trust: Who Will Get Trust Property

Naming beneficiaries for trust property is key to making a living trust.

Online Living Trust: Alternate and Residuary Beneficiaries

Naming alternates and a residuary beneficiary creates a backup plan for the unexpected.

Online Living Trust Transferring Titled Property Into Your Trust

Here are some details about transferring the title of various types of property.

Online Living Trust Transferring Real Estate Into Your Trust

To get your real property into your trust, you must change the name of the owner on the title document -- from your name to the name of the trust.

Online Living Trust Transferring Untitled Property into Your Trust

"Untitled" property is property without a title document. It's easy to transfer untitled property in and out of your trust.

Online Living Trust Making a Certification or Abstract of Trust

Use a certification of trust to prove to a bank or other institution that your trust exists while keeping its details private.

Online Living Trust Signing, Storing, and Registering Your Trust

After you make your living trust document, there are still a few things to do...

Online Living Trust Troubleshooting Your Living Trust

Here's what to do if you run into common situations that affect your living trust.

Online Living Trust Amending Your Trust Document

If you need to make changes to your living trust after you sign it and fund it, you have a few options.

Online Living Trust Revoking Your Living Trust

Revoking a living trust requires some extra knowledge and steps. Here's how.

Online Living Trust After a Grantor Dies

What happens after a living trust maker dies depends on the terms of the trust.

Online Living Trust If You Need More Help

Here are extra DIY resources to help you create your online living trust, tips to determine if you need a lawyer, and how to find a lawyer.