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IL · Revocable Living Trust
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Illinois living trust requirements
How it works
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Answer a few questions
About your assets, trustees, and beneficiaries.
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Download your trust
A complete, personalized revocable living trust, formatted for Illinois.
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Sign and fund
Sign the trust. Fund it by transferring assets into its name (notarization strongly recommended if real estate is involved).
Signing a Illinois living trust
No formal execution requirements beyond settlor signature; notarization strongly recommended when funding real property
Tenancy by the entirety
Illinois recognizes tenancy by the entirety (Homestead only. 765 ILCS 1005/1c limits TBE to real property maintained or intended for maintenance as a homestead by both spouses or civil-union partners. P.A. 104-40, eff. 1-1-26, made the civil-union inclusion express in the statutory text (the General Assembly declared the amendment 'declarative of existing law'). Non-homestead jointly-owned real estate cannot be held as TBE; an instrument purporting to create TBE on non-homestead property is construed as a joint tenancy.). It's a form of co-ownership available only to married couples that provides automatic survivorship and creditor protection from individual debts. When you transfer such property into a revocable trust, you may lose the tenancy-by-entirety protection unless your trust is drafted to preserve it.
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