There are so many good options when it comes to estate planning, but two of the most popular are trusts and wills. It is common for people to ask us if one is better than the other. While either option can do well to protect your needs, a trust can provide more ease for you and your beneficiaries in the long run.  If you only have a will, then you have a document that goes into effect upon your death. With this option, you leave a detailed plan of how you want your estate to be distributed. Every will must.

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We are now talking about a certificate of trust or affidavit of trustee or a trust certification. They’re all basically the same document, and what basically happens when you make a trust.  When you make a trust, you have created a legal entity. Now, no one in the world really knows about this legal entity, and they don’t know if it’s actually true. When you make an LLC, if you go online, you could find it. You could say, “Oh, there’s, “it’s an actual legal formation.”  But with a trust, it’s kind of more hidden, and people don’t know who.

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Let’s talk about whether a trust overrides a will. Before I answer that question, you got to understand what trust and a will is.  A trust is basically a probate avoidance device where you avoid the courts and do this in a much faster and cheaper way once you pass away for your heirs. A will allows you to go to court and literally is an allowance because it’s a ticket to court.  You must go to court if you only have a will. Or if you have a trust and everything is not in the trust then you’ll still.

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We’re going to talk about whether you should have a trust or a will today. Which one’s better? And why do you need one or the other?  Well, a trust is going to avoid something called probate. A will does not avoid probate and it makes you go through the court process. So take control of your property, it will appoint someone in charge based on your will, and then they will administer it, could take about a year or two before you could even do anything with the property.  Or the beneficiaries will have ultimate use of the property.

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Let’s talk about whether a trust overrides a will. Before I answer that question, you got to understand what trust and a will is.  A trust is basically a probate avoidance device where you avoid the courts and do this in a much faster and cheaper way once you pass away for your heirs. A will allows you to go to court and literally is an allowance because it’s a ticket to court.  You must go to court if you only have a will. Or if you have a trust and everything is not in the trust then you’ll still.

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