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In Arkansas, you can make a living trust to avoid probate for virtually any asset you own?real estate, bank accounts, vehicles, and so on. You need to create a trust document (it's similar to a will), naming someone to take over as trustee after your death (called a successor trustee).

When you make a living trust in Arkansas, you sign a trust document that includes all of the details about your trust, beneficiaries and trustee. The document is signed in front of a notary.

Because your trust assets do not pass through probate, the entire trust and its terms remain completely private. There is no public record of what you placed in trust or who you gave it to. Because assets are not held up in probate, they can be distributed immediately upon your death if you so choose without any delay.

A simple example would be the situation in which one member of a family advances money to another and asks the second member to hold the money or to invest it for him. A more complicated example of an implied trust would be the situation in which one party provides money to another for the purchase of property.

The cost of setting up a trust in Arkansas varies depending on the complexity of the trust and the attorney's fees. A basic Revocable Living Trust generally ranges from $1,000 to $3,000. More complex trusts can cost several thousand dollars more.

Some trusts are 20 to 40+ pages in length due to all of the provisions, definitions, and contingencies that align with the goals of the person making the trust which may not be able to accomplish these goals if they are not included.