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Title: Trust Funding: The Essential Step That Completes Your Estate Plan

United States, 4th Nov 2025 - Creating a Revocable Living Trust is a powerful way to protect your assets, maintain privacy, and help your loved ones avoid probate. But simply signing the trust document isn’t enough to make it work. To be effective, your trust must be funded—meaning your assets must be properly transferred into it.Trust funding is the step that transforms your trust from a plan on paper into a working legal tool. Without funding, your trust may not provide the benefits you intended.At Fishbein Law Group, we make sure clients understand how funding works and assist throughout the process, so your estate plan is complete and ready to function when needed.What Does It Mean to “Fund” a Trust?Funding a trust means changing the legal ownership of your property so that the trust becomes the asset holder, not you personally. Depending on the type of asset, this may involve:Retitling the asset in the name of the trust, orUpdating beneficiary designations to coordinate with the trust.Assets commonly included in trust funding:Real estate (homes, rentals, land)Bank accounts and credit union accountsNon-retirement investment and brokerage accountsBusiness ownership or membership interestsValuable personal property and collectionsAssets like IRAs and life insurance often remain in your individual name, but the beneficiaries are updated to align with the trust.Why Proper Funding Is CriticalA trust that is not funded cannot do its job.If assets are left in your individual name at your death, they may still require probate, even if you created a trust.A properly funded trust:Avoids probate and court involvementGives your successor trustee clear legal authorityKeeps your affairs private, instead of becoming part of the pub...

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