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NH · Revocable Living Trust
New Hampshire living trust requirements.
Skip probate, keep your estate private, and stay in control while you're alive. Document generation isn’t currently available in New Hampshire while we review its rules for online legal document services. The signing requirements below still apply.
Requirements at a glance
Signing a New Hampshire living trust
No formal execution requirements beyond settlor signature; notarization strongly recommended when funding real property
Proving your New Hampshire trust without handing it over
When a bank, brokerage, title company, insurer, or transfer agent asks to see your trust, New Hampshire law lets your trustee give them a short certification of trust instead (N.H. Rev. Stat. §564-B:10-1013). 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.
Funding New Hampshire real estate into the trust
To transfer New Hampshire 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 the property is located. The trust does not control real estate unless the deed transfer is recorded.
Document generation isn’t currently available in New Hampshire.