How to Use living trust in a Sentence

living trust

noun
  • Most assets that aren’t in the living trust go through probate.
    — Bob Carlson, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • One morning in April, Derreumaux sat down to write a living trust.
    — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 May 2021
  • Michael and Nirit Rubenstein sold the home through their living trust.
    — Ebony Day, azcentral, 1 June 2020
  • There's no specific dollar amount of assets for which a living trust becomes a good idea.
    — Andrew Theen, OregonLive.com, 14 Jan. 2018
  • Wendell and Debra Pickett sold the home through their living trust.
    — Ebony Day, azcentral, 6 Apr. 2020
  • The good news is that updating a living trust typically costs a lot less than setting it up in the first place.
    — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2024
  • Yet, a living trust has no effect unless it is given legal title to assets.
    — Bob Carlson, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • Find any estate planning documents, such as a will or a living trust, to start the process of settling the estate.
    — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 9 Jan. 2021
  • Timothy and Susan Stuart sold the house through their living trust.
    — Ebony Day, azcentral, 18 May 2020
  • Beneficiaries need to be named for assets that avoid probate and aren’t controlled by a living trust.
    — Bob Carlson, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Pamela and James Anderson, trustees of the Anderson living trust, sold the home.
    — Ebony Day, The Arizona Republic, 5 Oct. 2020
  • The best approach for most people is to have both a POA and a revocable living trust.
    — Bob Carlson, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
  • The assets that pass through a revocable living trust are nonprobate assets.
    — Dallas News, 5 July 2020
  • To further complicate matters, a living trust or a will can have provisions that create a bypass trust after someone dies.
    — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 10 Apr. 2022
  • When creating the foundation, Newman laid out specific plans on its structure in a living trust.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Your attorney probably will suggest creating a living trust to avoid probate, the court process for settling an estate.
    — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Perhaps the most basic and widespread estate planning mistake is failing to fund a revocable living trust.
    — Bob Carlson, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • Revocable living trusts also don't get special estate tax treatment.
    — Liz Weston, OregonLive.com, 21 Jan. 2018
  • Payable-on-death accounts might be a solution for people with simple situations and too few resources to justify a living trust.
    — Liz Weston, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2024
  • Buyers whose names didn't appear to be a person or a family or living trust were categorized as an investor or other entity.
    — Patrick Clark, Fortune, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Revocable living trusts are designed to eliminate the potential costs and delays of probate, not of the estate tax system.
    — Liz Weston, OregonLive.com, 21 Jan. 2018
  • Also, a will and a durable power of attorney for health care matters, money, and children are regular items that get addressed while completing a living trust.
    — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
  • Two common examples are when the owner dies and the house title transfers as part of the owner’s estate, and when the owner creates a living trust and transfers the house title into the trust.
    — Dallas News, 22 Nov. 2020
  • However, if the property was owned in a living trust, which is a common estate planning method, the trust agreement will appoint a new trustee who can sign the deed at closing without waiting for probate.
    — Gary Singer, Sun Sentinel, 11 July 2024
  • An alternative, or better yet a complement, to the POA is the revocable living trust.
    — Bob Carlson, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
  • The fact that she’s created a will, rather than a living trust — which avoids probate and which is typically advisable in California — is concerning.
    — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Priscilla Presley’s court filing says there are several issues that bring the living trust amendment’s authenticity into doubt.
    — Andrew Dalton, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Priscilla Presley's court filing says there are several issues that bring the living trust amendment's authenticity into doubt.
    — Andrew Dalton, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2023
  • With a living trust, your successor trustee will be able to access other funds in the trust to make the payments while the estate is being settled, said Jennifer Sawday, an estate planning attorney in Long Beach.
    — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2023
  • The client’s attorney will then include Trinity in the estate planning documents, naming Ceh Becvar as executor for a will, trustee for a living trust, or power of attorney for healthcare or business.
    — Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2026

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