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Living Trusts: Do They Protect Your Assets From Creditors?
A surprising number of readers want to know "Can a living trust protect my family's assets from creditors and lawsuits?"I think there are some promoters out there that use this as a pitch to get people to set up a living trust using their services:"Transfer your assets to a living trust and hide them from your creditors," are the claims.Sorry, that's not the law.

Using Revocable Living Trusts to Avoid Probate
The probate process can be time-consuming and expensive. Although is generally impossible to avoid probate once the decedent has died, probate costs can generally be avoided with proper estate planning prior to death.

Antelope Valley Estate Planning Law Firm Warns Consumers About Living Trust Mills
Antelope Valley estate planning law firm Thompson Von Tungeln warns consumers against working with "Living Trust Mills." Sales agents pretending to be experts in living trusts contact consumers--usually senior citizens--to review their estate plan. During this meeting the sales agent receives valuable financial information from the unwary consumer, using it to frighten consumers into thinking their current investments are risky and the annuities the sales people are selling are not. In the end, the consumer has a damaged estate plan and nearly depleted investments.

Transferring Assets to Your Trust Takes Paperwork
Let's review the question by the widow whose husband recently passed away. Now that he has died, she has learned that there were some assets that he owned that were never placed into the trust's ownership.

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