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Courtney is passionate about providing clients excellent service and helping clients through the sometimes challenging experience of creating an estate plan and going through probate court following the death of a loved one.
Here is the issue: You may not want your children to have to bear the cost of hiring an attorney and paying all the fees that going through probate will require.
-- Should you consider a living trust to prevent your assets from going through probate?
In this situation, a trust can be a lot cheaper in the long run than going through probate.
If you own out-of-state real estate, a living trust will help your heirs avoid going through probate in multiple states.
The intent in these cases is to have someone in place to manage the account when you aren't able and who will inherit it without going through probate.
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Other assets will not go through probate no matter what a will or living trust says.
Others may be surprised to find that much of what they leave behind will not go through probate anyway.
"We received money from my husband's estate; it had to go through probate court," she said.
While wills go through probate, that's not necessarily a reason to opt for an RLT instead.
You can save your family from having to go through probate in two states by putting the vacation house in a revocable trust.
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