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Alabama living trust requirements.
Skip probate, keep your estate private, and stay in control while you're alive. Document generation isn’t currently available in Alabama while we review its rules for online legal document services. The signing requirements below still apply.
Requirements at a glance
Signing an Alabama living trust
No formal execution requirements beyond settlor signature; notarization strongly recommended when funding real property
Proving your Alabama trust without handing it over
When a bank, brokerage, title company, insurer, or transfer agent asks to see your trust, Alabama law lets your trustee give them a short certification of trust instead (Ala. Code §19-3B-1013). It states that the trust exists, who the trustee is, and what the trustee may do. It leaves out who inherits and what each person receives, so your beneficiaries stay private.
Funding Alabama real estate into the trust
To transfer Alabama real estate into your trust, you sign a new deed conveying the property from yourself to yourself as trustee, then record the deed with the office of the Judge of Probate of the county where the property is located (Ala. Code §§35-4-50, 35-4-62). The trust does not control real estate unless the deed transfer is recorded.
Document generation isn’t currently available in Alabama.