Put Your Home in your Trust

20 Apr 2023 · 1 min

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The video provides a concise, practical tutorial on moving a residential property into a revocable living trust. It outlines the entire process: first, locate the existing deed from the home purchase closing documents. Next, obtain a state‑appropriate deed form (commonly a quitclaim deed in Alabama or a grant deed elsewhere) and fill it out, listing the homeowner as the grantor and the trust as the grantee, and copying the exact legal property description from the current deed. After completing the form, sign and date it before a notary public. Finally, deliver the notarized deed to the local probate or land‑records office for filing. Once recorded, the title officially reflects the trust as the owner.

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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. 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.