O.J. Simpson filed a pour-over will and revocable living trust on the same day in January 2024, just months before his death. A pour-over will catches any assets left out of the trust and funnels them through probate into it, avoiding full estate probate. Because the documents were created so close to his death, some assets likely weren't transferred to the trust yet.
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O.J. Simpson's will was filed in Clark County, Nevada last week, and there's some interesting things about it. The will he filed is the kind of will that normally is associated with a trust. It's called a pour-over will. The reason it is called that is because of this provision right here that says everything in his estate is to be poured into his revocable living trust that was created on January 25th, 2024, which is the same date he created this will. Now, normally, if you have a trust, you do not want your will to ever have to be probated or taken to probate court for any reason. But if you leave assets out of your trust that need to be in your trust, a lawyer like me can take a will like this to probate court and get those assets poured into your trust versus having to go through full-blown probate. I can only assume that since this will and trust were created less than 3 months before his death, there were assets left out of the trust that do need to be in the trust, and that's why they have filed this will. Although in O.J.'s case there will be proceedings
