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You can pass on your investment accounts by naming one or more beneficiaries on the accounts or by placing the accounts in a trust. With an investment account, you must notify the investment company and file new documents every time you want to change your beneficiary designation.
Brokerage Accountsa copy of the trust document or a certification of trust (see Making a Certification of Trust), and.a letter instructing the holder to transfer the brokerage account to (or open a new account in) your name as trustee.
Using a revocable trust can help you avoid probate Assets that don't pass directly to heirs (such as a bank account, brokerage account, home, etc.) will go through probate before being distributed according to your will (if you had one) or at the court's discretion. Probate is an expensive, time-consuming process.
A trust keeps your financial affairs private, as they should be. Your beneficiaries do not own the assets in your trust until they are distributed. The trust is its own entity. That means that if your beneficiary should run into financial trouble, the money in the trust is safe.
How to Transfer Assets Into an Irrevocable TrustIdentify Your Assets. Review your assets and determine which ones you would like to place in your trust.Obtain a Trust Tax Identification Number.Transfer Ownership of Your Assets.Purchase a Life Insurance Policy.
To transfer over an existing account already in individual names, you just put the account number(s) in Section 4. The Certification of Trust form requires signatures to be notarized. Instead of using Fidelity's form, I just attached a copy of the trust certification document prepared and notarized by our lawyer.
Irrevocable Trust DisadvantagesInflexible structure. You don't have any wiggle room if you're the grantor of an irrevocable trust, compared to a revocable trust.Loss of control over assets. You have no control to retrieve or even manage your former assets that you assign to an irrevocable trust.Unforeseen changes.
To transfer real property into your Trust, a new deed reflecting the name of the Trust must be executed, notarized and recorded with the County Recorder in the County where the property is located. Care must be taken that the exact legal description in the existing deed appears on the new deed.
How to Transfer Assets Into an Irrevocable TrustIdentify Your Assets. Review your assets and determine which ones you would like to place in your trust.Obtain a Trust Tax Identification Number.Transfer Ownership of Your Assets.Purchase a Life Insurance Policy.