How To Put Your Home In Your Trust

12 Sept 2022 · 1 min

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The video provides a concise, step‑by‑step tutorial for transferring ownership of a personal residence into a revocable living trust. It begins by instructing viewers to locate the current deed from the home‑closing paperwork. Next, it explains how to obtain a state‑appropriate deed form—often a quitclaim deed in Alabama or a grant deed elsewhere—by searching online, contacting the local probate court, or consulting an attorney. The presenter details filling out the new deed: listing the homeowner as the grantor, the trust as the grantee, and copying the exact legal property description from the existing deed. After completing the form, the deed must be signed and notarized, then filed with the local probate or land‑records office. Once the filing is recorded, the home’s title officially belongs to the trust.

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How do you actually put your home in a trust? Save this video because this is how you do it. What you're 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 should have one with all the documents you got at the closing of your home. Then 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. It can be confusing, so make sure you get it right. Then 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.