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LA · Revocable Living Trust
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Louisiana living trust requirements
Special notes for Louisiana
- Louisiana civil-law execution formalities apply. Standard common-law notary-only execution is insufficient
- Authentic act requires a licensed notary + 2 witnesses; the notary must attest the act
How it works
- 1
Answer a few questions
About your assets, trustees, and beneficiaries.
- 2
Download your trust
A complete, personalized revocable living trust, formatted for Louisiana.
- 3
Sign and fund
Sign in front of 2 witnesses and a notary. Fund the trust by transferring assets into its name.
Signing a Louisiana living trust
La. R.S. 9:1752 provides exactly two pathways for creating an inter vivos trust: (1) by authentic act, or (2) by act under private signature executed in the presence of two witnesses and either duly acknowledged by the settlor or supported by the affidavit of one of the attesting witnesses. The acknowledgment-by-settlor and the witness-affidavit alternatives both modify the single private-signature-with-two-witnesses pathway; there is no separate 'private signature acknowledged before a notary' route that bypasses the two-witness requirement.
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