Roles
Documents
Benefits
Pitfalls
100

The person who Probates a Will

Who is the Executor?

100

Directions for Medical Staff

What is the Advance Medical Directive?

100

The #1 reason to have a Living Trust

What is Avoid Probate?

100

The consequence of doing nothing

What is Intestate Succession?

200

The Person who creates a Trust

Who is the Grantor/Trustor?

200

How non-trust assets are handled

What is the Pour-Over Will?

200

The Reason to Create a Special Needs Trust

What is Qualify for Government Benefits?

200

The most common fail among those who create a trust

What is failing to fund it?

300

The person/people/entities who receive assets from a Trust

Who are the Beneficiaries?

300

Where Trust Assets are listed

What is Schedule A?

300

The reason to inherit by trust as opposed to intestacy

What is Stepped Up Value?

300

The place people record a deed

What is the Recorder's Office?

400

The person who appraises property in a Probate matter

Who is the Probate Referee?

400

The Short Form of a Trust

What is the Abstract of Trust?

400

The least-known benefit of having a trust

What is Privacy?

400

The way to assume control of non-trust assets

What is a Heggstad Petition?

500

The person who administers a Trust after the Grantor dies

The Successor Trustee

500

Document that lets someone take over financial affairs

What is a Durable Power of Attorney?

500

The biggest line-item cost savings for having a trust vs. going to probate

What are attorney's fees?

500

This must be posted absent direction or waiver

What is a bond?