Make your Colorado living trust.

How it works

1. 1

   Answer a few questions

   About your assets, trustees, and beneficiaries.

2. 2

   Download your trust

   A complete, personalized revocable living trust, formatted for Colorado.

3. 3

   Sign and fund

   Sign the trust. Fund it by transferring assets into its name (notarization strongly recommended if real estate is involved).

Signing a Colorado living trust

No formal execution requirements beyond settlor signature; notarization strongly recommended when funding real property

Proving your Colorado trust without handing it over

When a bank, brokerage, title company, insurer, or transfer agent asks to see your trust, Colorado law lets your trustee give them a short certification of trust instead (C.R.S. §15-5-1013). 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.

Will.com generates the Colorado Certification of Trust alongside your trust, built to the contents that section requires. Sign it in front of the same notary, at the same sitting as the trust, then give out copies of the certification rather than the trust itself.

Funding Colorado real estate into the trust

To transfer Colorado 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 County Clerk and Recorder of the county where the property is located (C.R.S. §38-35-109(1)). The trust does not control real estate unless the deed transfer is recorded.