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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are thinking about the $500 it costs to have your attorney do this, my first question to you is why you have a trust?  Trusts are completely unnecessary for most estates.  Do you have a lot of stipulations on how assets are to be distributed?  Is your estate extremely complex?  [b]Do your heirs (or your executor) lack the ability to navigate probate?  [/b]Do you have heirs with special needs who may not be capable of managing their own finances?  If the answer to all of these is no, then the only thing you are doing by setting up a trust is enriching the attorneys who will be paid to set it up and manage it.[/quote]

Why the F would you want anyone to go through probate?!?!?  A young family we know in another state lost their breadwinner over a year ago in an accident.  The spouse didn't have a job, had to deal with 2 kids in school AND go through a lengthy 14 month probate process to move their small house and car to her name.  Lawyer and court fees added up too!  Thankfully, she was able to access her joint bank accounts while looking for work and navigating this mess.  Family contributions and GoFundMe helped out with expenses in the first few months before SS kicked in. [b] Far, far easier and better to have joint title[/b] to the house and car or have them titled in the name of a Revocable Trust.  [/quote]

That has nothing to do with needing a trust. If everything was titled properly, this wouldn’t be an issue.  If they couldn’t even do that simple thing right, I seriously doubt a trust would have been set up correctly. One reason trusts are often worthless is because people don’t title everything properly into the trust and they end up having to go through probate anyway. Best example is OP, who is going to pay someone to set up the trust, and then try to handle the rest of the work themselves & will probably end up missing something and make it all pointless. There are a few states where a trust is worthwhile, but most probate processes are not a big deal. A trust does not mean there will be no estate disputes, either. That’s a misconception.

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How long does probate take in Va or Md? Everyone I know says it has been horrible. One family member in Fl dealt with it for 2 years. Your insulting comments that most people can't get things moved in to a trust by themselves is self serving bs. [/quote]

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