Revocable Living Trusts
How a revocable trust works and what the document should address.
Learn more →Living trust and estate planning counsel serving Glendale, California.
A living trust attorney helps design the trust terms, coordinate the trust with wills and incapacity documents, and identify how assets should be titled or designated so the estate plan works as intended.
Glendale families frequently want plans that work across generations and clearly address real estate, bank and investment accounts, family businesses, and the role of children or relatives as successor trustees.
A trust should be drafted for the people who will have to use it—not only for the day it is signed.
No. California law governs the trust issues. Local planning differences usually arise from the family’s property, business interests, asset values, ownership structures and practical needs.
California real estate is commonly transferred to a revocable living trust by recorded deed. The particular deed, ownership and property-tax consequences should be reviewed before transfer.
Bring any existing will or trust, deeds, a general asset list, beneficiary-designation information, and the names of people you are considering as trustees, agents and beneficiaries.
How a revocable trust works and what the document should address.
Learn more →Update an older trust after family or financial changes.
Learn more →Coordinate the trust with a will and incapacity documents.
Learn more →Contact Sirkin Law Group, PC about creating, reviewing or updating a California living trust.