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OH · Revocable Living Trust
Make your Ohio living trust.
Skip probate, keep your estate private, and stay in control while you're alive. Legally valid in Ohio once signed under the Ohio signing rules below. Free to create, or add secure online document storage with the $29/year subscription.
Ohio 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 Ohio.
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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).
Joint or individual
Married couples can make one joint Ohio living trust that both spouses sign, in place of an individual one. The questionnaire asks which you want, and Will.com generates either.
Signing an Ohio living trust
No formal execution requirements beyond settlor signature; notarization strongly recommended when funding real property
Proving your Ohio trust without handing it over
When a bank, brokerage, title company, insurer, or transfer agent asks to see your trust, Ohio law lets your trustee give them a short certification of trust instead (Ohio Rev. Code §5810.13). 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 Ohio 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 Ohio real estate into the trust
To transfer Ohio 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. The trust does not control real estate unless the deed transfer is recorded.
Two tiers, both private
Free: nothing leaves your browser. No account, no storage. Clear your answers whenever.
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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