How to transfer a home into a revocable trust by filing a new deed. Get your current deed, fill out a quit-claim or grant deed with the trust's name as the new owner, have it notarized, and file it with your local probate court or land-records office.
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How do you actually put your home in a trust? Save this video. You are going to do is to change the title of your home from your name to the name of your trust. The first thing you do is to get a copy of your current deed. You have to prepare a copy of a new deed and you need a deed form that is applicable to your state. Should be able to find one online, call your local probate court and ask them, or you can have a lawyer do all this. Here in Alabama, we primarily use a quitclaim deed. Other places it might be called a grant deed. Fill out the form. The grantor will be your name. The grantee will be the name of the trust. Then there will be a large space on the form for the legal description of the property. Copy the legal description from your current deed to the deed that you are preparing. Sign and date it in front of a notary. Then take it to your local probate court clerk's office, or whatever your land records office is called. File the new deed there. Once that is completed, your home will be in your trust.