MARK KOHLERMain Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, Main Street Professionals, LLC · Owner at Main Street Professionals, LLC

Your Trust Is Worthless If You Don't Do This

15 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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Mark Kohler explains why a perfectly written trust fails without proper funding: the trustee can't control assets like real estate or stock if they're not legally owned by the trust. He recommends annual reviews to ensure assets are actually transferred in, and shows how lawyers use a visual framework to connect all the pieces of an estate plan.

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You want to make sure your trust is funded, which means it actually owns the LLC membership interest or the stock or the real estate. The trust has to own it so your trustee can control it. You could sign a wonderful trust. It's beautiful. But if you don't put anything in it, it's worthless. You got to make sure it's funded. So for some of you that already have a trust, you want to make sure you're reviewing it every year, making sure everything's in it that it should be. We have what's called a trifecta, a picture. It kind of brings it all together. When you work with one of our lawyers, they're going to lay it out like a beautiful piece of art and say, this is how it all works and comes together. Because if you see it, you can feel it and believe it and make it happen.