What happens to your home, money, investments, and digital assets if you become incapacitated or die?
A will alone may not accomplish everything you think it does. And simply signing a living trust doesn't mean your estate plan is finished. The real value comes from understanding how your living trust works, properly funding your trust, and keeping your entire estate plan coordinated as your life changes.
The Beginner’s Practical Guide to Living Trusts in the U.S. gives you a clear, plain-English roadmap for understanding and organizing your estate plan without getting buried in complicated legal terminology.
Inside, you'll discover how to:
• Understand living trusts, wills, probate, revocable trusts, and irrevocable trusts
• Create a practical living trust plan for your circumstances
• Choose the right trustee and successor trustee
• Properly fund your trust and understand why trust funding matters
• Coordinate your home, bank accounts, investments, insurance, business interests, and other assets
• Prepare for incapacity before a crisis occurs
• Handle beneficiaries, blended families, minor children, and difficult family decisions
• Organize your digital estate, including cryptocurrency, digital wallets, passwords, social media, websites, and other digital assets
• Understand what happens to your trust after death
BONUS PRACTICAL TOOLS
You'll also get practical resources to help turn what you learn into action, including a 30-Day Living Trust Action Plan, Master Asset Inventory, Trust-Funding Checklist, Trustee Selection Scorecard, Beneficiary Review Checklist, Digital Estate Checklist, Annual Estate-Plan Review, and questions to ask an estate-planning attorney.
Whether you're starting from scratch or already have a will or living trust, this book helps you understand the decisions that matter, organize what you own, properly fund your trust, and create a clearer path for yourself and the people you love.
Learn the basics. Organize your assets. Fund your trust. Prepare your family for the future.
This book is for educational and informational purposes and is not a substitute for individualized legal, tax, or financial advice. Estate-planning laws vary by state.