Personal Property In A Trust In Utah
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Putting assets, such as real estate, financial accounts, investments, insurance policies, and personal properties, in a living trust involves certain steps depending on the type of asset. These assets can be moved into the trust through legal documents such as deeds, title transfers, or assignments.
Grantors opting for these trusts lose their ownership rights to the assets within them. They lose the ability to decide how to manage or sell these assets.
Trusts offer amazing benefits, but they also come with potential downsides like loss of control, limited access to assets, costs, and recordkeeping difficulties.
Trusts offer amazing benefits, but they also come with potential downsides like loss of control, limited access to assets, costs, and recordkeeping difficulties.
Importantly, assets held in trust do not need to go through probate court—allowing your beneficiaries to access their inheritances more easily and quickly. While it may make sense for some people to have only a will, typically those with a trust(s) should also have a will to cover any property not covered by the trust.
The new car needs to be titled in the name of the trust when you buy it. The trust's info needs to be on the title as the owner. Name of trust – Date of trust – and name of trustee. You will sign the title as trustee, not in our capacity as an individual.
You transfer your home to the trust by signing a deed that names the trust as the new owner of the property. The deed then needs to be recorded with the local county recorder's office. Once recorded, the trust is now "on title" as the legal owner of the property.
In most situations, one would typically want to maintain full control of personal property assets. As a result, few would use this type of trust planning for personal property. An exception might be an heirloom of great value that spends most of its time in a safe deposit box.
