Make your Nevada 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 Nevada.

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 Nevada 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 Nevada living trust

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

Proving your Nevada trust without handing it over

When a bank, brokerage, title company, insurer, or transfer agent asks to see your trust, Nevada law lets your trustee give them a short certification of trust instead (Nev. Rev. Stat. §164.400, §164.410 and §164.420). 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 Nevada 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.

Community property in Nevada

Nevada is a community-property state under Nev. Rev. Stat. §123.220 et seq.. Assets you and your spouse acquire during the marriage are presumed to be community property, owned 50/50, regardless of whose name is on the title. Adds an Article VII: Community Property Provisions covering classification of community vs. separate property, the surviving spouse's one-half interest, federal IRC §1014(b)(6) double-stepped-up basis, and record-keeping for traced contributions.

When you fund a revocable trust with community property, both spouses should sign as settlors so the character of the property doesn't change.

Funding Nevada real estate into the trust

To transfer Nevada 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 Recorder of the county where the property is located (Nev. Rev. Stat. §111.315). The trust does not control real estate unless the deed transfer is recorded.