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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.

Any property stored inside the trust is not subject to probate court, a time-consuming and sometimes privacy-invading process that most trusts have to go through. This may be especially important in Arkansas, which does not use the Uniform Probate Code, which simplifies the probate process in some other states.

The trustee of an irrevocable trust can only withdraw money to use for the benefit of the trust ing to terms set by the grantor, like disbursing income to beneficiaries or paying maintenance costs, and never for personal use.

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.

Not all bank accounts are suitable for a Living Trust. If you need regular access to an account, you may want to keep it in your name rather than the name of your Trust. Or, you may have a low-value account that won't benefit from being put in a Trust.

You could technically create an oral trust, but that would create more problems than it is worth. It is a simple matter to create a handwritten trust in California that our courts would enforce and uphold. In fact, it is easier to create a handwritten trust than to make a handwritten will in our state.