Mom’s Living Trust: Why You Need One Now
A 50-second story of a California family, a house and a year in probate, and the one document that would have avoided it. With the transcript.
Read more on this topic
Transcript
The day after Mom's funeral, my brother and I stopped speaking. She raised us in that house. She always said, "It's yours.
Both of you." Then, in March, she was gone. Two weeks later, a letter came. We couldn't sell the house. We couldn't even move in.
Not without court. A judge would oversee everything. Who got what. And when. Months turned into a year. Then the bill came.
Forty-six thousand dollars. My brother blamed me. And I blamed him. But it wasn't either of us. It was the one thing Mom never signed.
A living trust. With one, her house goes straight to her kids. In months. Privately. No judge. Set up your living trust today!
And find the right attorney for your estate planning, inheritance dispute or probate. Visit CaliforniaInheritanceLaw.com.
General information, not legal advice. Stories in the videos are illustrative. The rules behind each point are explained, with their Probate Code sources, in the guides linked above.