A revocable living trust holds your assets during your lifetime and passes them to the people you name without going through probate. You keep full control and can change it at any time. A trust only works if it is funded — assets must actually be retitled into it.
What this covers
- Revocable living trusts
- Funding the trust properly
- Trust administration after a death
- Irrevocable and asset protection trusts
- Guidance for successor trustees
- Amendments and restatements
A revocable living trust is the most common reason Florida families avoid probate. You create the trust, move your assets into it, and continue to manage them exactly as before — you can amend or revoke it any time you like. When you pass, the successor trustee you named distributes the assets privately, without a court file, without a public inventory, and usually without the delay.
The part that goes wrong is funding. A trust that was drafted but never funded sends the family straight back to probate, which is precisely what it was supposed to prevent. We prepare the deeds, coordinate the account retitling and review the beneficiary designations so the trust actually holds what it is supposed to hold. We also handle trust administration after a death, and irrevocable trusts where asset protection or tax planning calls for one.