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A Delaware trust typically costs anywhere between $1,500 and $3,950. At Snug, any member can create a Power of Attorney and Health Care Directive for free. A Will costs $195 and a Trust costs $500. For many families, this is a great option to get you fully covered and save some money while doing it.

A living trust will help your heirs avoid probate in Delaware, which has not adopted the Uniform Probate Code, if you have a large or otherwise complicated estate. If the value of your estate is less than $30,000, however, a living trust is unnecessary, since there is a simplified process for small estates.

A living trust is created in Delaware by signing a Declaration of Trust, which will name the trustee, beneficiary and terms of the trust. You need to sign the declaration in the presence of a notary. Once that is complete, the trust must be funded by transferring assets into it.

Delaware does not impose any state income tax on income accumulated in, and capital gains realized by, an irrevocable trust (provided no beneficiary lives in Delaware).

Delaware's directed trust law provides: Freedom to engage in estate planning or asset protection planning using illiquid assets, such as stock in the family business, real estate, or hedge fund/private equity investments, when a trustee may otherwise be reluctant to hold these types of assets.

To make a living trust in Delaware, you: Choose whether to make an individual or shared trust. Decide what property to include in the trust. Choose a successor trustee. Decide who will be the trust's beneficiaries?that is, who will get the trust property. Create the trust document.