How To Decide – Inherit House Or Trust?
Should you inherit a house outright or hold it in a trust? Put it in the trust, advises estate attorney Andrew Dósa. If you inherit a home, retitle it to yourself as trustee, not as an individual—that keeps it inside the trust and out of probate. The same goes for any property you later buy: title it in the trust.
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Answered by Andrew Dósa · Tacoma, WA and Oakland, CA
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— why keeping the house in the trust avoids probate
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Should you inherit a house outright or in a trust?
Put it in the trust—if you inherit a home, retitle it to yourself as trustee, not as an individual, which keeps it inside the trust and out of probate, and do the same for any property you later buy.
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