Monday, July 13, 2015

The Advantages of a Revocable Trust

People often ask about the advantage of a revocable trust for probate avoidance.

There are several advantages. For example, when it is established and properly funded, it ensures a consistent estate plan. Too often, when people rely on designated beneficiaries and joint ownership, the result is a plan that is skewed unintentionally toward one or another beneficiary. The reason for this is that if you have multiple beneficiary designations, and you change one but forgot to change the others, you may create a different distribution than the one you had in mind. 

By contrast, with a revocable trust, the change can be made once (by means of an amendment to the trust) and this will affect all assets.

Read more: http://www.curtinlawoffice.com/typical-questions.htm

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