Make your Nebraska 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 Nebraska.

3. 3

   Sign and fund

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

Joint or individual

Married couples can make one joint Nebraska living trust that both spouses sign, in place of an individual one. The questionnaire asks which you want, and Will.com generates either.

Signing a Nebraska living trust

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

Proving your Nebraska trust without handing it over

When a bank, brokerage, title company, insurer, or transfer agent asks to see your trust, Nebraska law lets your trustee give them a short certification of trust instead (Neb. Rev. Stat. §30-38,102 and §30-38,103). 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 Nebraska 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 Nebraska real estate into the trust

To transfer Nebraska 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 Register of Deeds (or county clerk acting as ex officio register of deeds) of the county where the property is located. The trust does not control real estate unless the deed transfer is recorded.