Make Your Living Trust - by Editors Of Nolo Editors of Nolo (Paperback)

About the Book

If you're curious about living trusts and wondering whether you should make one, this book will help. It explains what living trusts do, how they differ from wills, how to make one, and whether you'll need a lawyer's help. After reading it, you'll also see how a living trust fits into your broader estate plan, and you'll have a list of other documents you might need.

Book Synopsis

Save your family time, money, and headaches

You can use a living trust to keep your estate out of probate and distribute property after you die. But how do you know whether a living trust is right for you, how do you get one, and what other documents do you need? Make Your Living Trust addresses these concerns and more by explaining:

• what probate is (and why to avoid it)


• how living trusts work


• why you might not need a living trust


• the pros and cons of making a living trust without a lawyer


• what kinds of property go into a living trust, and


• how to choose a successor trustee.

This book explains how to make a living trust--on your own or with help from an attorney. It also covers other aspects of your estate plan, like what to do with your digital assets and why you still need to make a will, financial power of attorney, and health care directive.

Review Quotes

2025 INDIES Award finalist--Foreword Reviews

"Make Your Living Trust" also explains, step-by-step, how to make a living trust -- on your own or with help from an attorney. It also covers other aspects of your estate plan, like what to do with your digital assets and why you still need to make a will, financial power of attorney, and health care directive.

Critique: Exceptionally well written and thoroughly 'reader/user' friendly in organization and presentation, "Make Your Living Trust" by the editorial staff of Nolo Press is an ideal and unreservedly recommended pick for personal, professional, community, and college/university library Retirement Planning, Estate planning, and Wills/Trusts collections and supplemental Financial Management/Planning curriculum studies lists. "Library Bookwatch, James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief, Midwest Book Review"