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MA · Revocable Living Trust
Make your Massachusetts living trust.
Skip probate, keep your estate private, and stay in control while you're alive. Legally valid in Massachusetts. Free to create, or add secure online document storage with the $29/year subscription.
Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts.
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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 Massachusetts living trust
No formal execution requirements beyond settlor signature; notarization strongly recommended when funding real property
Tenancy by the entirety
Massachusetts recognizes tenancy by the entirety. 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.
Funding Massachusetts real estate into the trust
To transfer Massachusetts 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 Registry of Deeds for the county where any deeded Trust property lies for the county where the property is located. The trust does not control real estate unless the deed transfer is recorded.
Two tiers, both private
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Subscription ($29/year): zero-knowledge encrypted storage. We store the ciphertext; only you hold the key. Edit and update as life changes.
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