 Plan your estate with this comprehensive Living Trust software! For years, financial planners and attorneys have used Living Trusts as a way to ensure that property is protected and passed on from one generation to the next. A Revocable Living Trust provides a safe and legal way to manage your assets -- both during your lifetime and upon your death. And since the software includes all of the fill-in-the-blank legal forms and detailed instructions necessary to create either a Joint Trust, a Single Trust or an A/B Trust, the Living Trust software from Standard Legal is a great value in one easy-to-use package! Complete details below...
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REVOCABLE LIVING TRUST LEGAL FORMS SOFTWARE: JOINT TRUST, SINGLE TRUST, A/B TRUST
A Living Trust allows you to legally decide two important issues regarding your wealth: how you want your assets and property managed while you are alive, and how you want your assets and property distributed after your death.
A Living Trust can provide for the distribution of property upon your death, just like a Will. But a Living Trust is more effective in many ways: a Will only takes effect upon death, while a Revocable Living Trust provides the same ability to determine asset distribution upon death AND provides a tool for protecting and managing property and assets during your lifetime!
A Living Trust empowers a designated Trustee to manage the trust's assets and property for the benefit of you and your family. The Trustee can be anyone you choose -- including yourself! The asset management in a Living Trust covers any number of financial or property-based transactions: making one-time or recurring cash payments to a beneficiary; transferring assets upon a designated date; making financial moves under a specific set of circumstances; etc.
Further, should you become physically or mentally incapacitated, a Living Trust is critical: it allows you to designate how you want your estate handled without any direct court intervention or supervision. You stay in control of your assets by making decisions and outlining them within the Trust in advance of any incapacitation! The Probate Court is kept out of the management of your estate!
Upon your death, the successor Trustee that you appoint within the Living Trust will act much like the executor of a Will: the Trustee will gather your assets; will pay any valid debts, claims and taxes; and will distribute your property and assets as you have clearly directed. More importantly, the structure of a Living Trust means the assets are owned by the Trust and are not part of the deceased person's estate -- so there is usually no need for a Probate Court's approval before the transfer. As such, the often time-consuming and costly probate process can be avoided!
Standard Legal's Living Trust software allows you to determine the type of Trust desired, based completely on your personal situation. Using the comprehensive information and instructions provided, you determine the type of Trust that makes the most sense for you and your family. Pick from any of these Trust structures, as all are included in the software:
- Revocable Joint Trust for Married Persons with Children: For use by married couples with children whose property in total is worth less than $1,500,000 and who want to provide income to themselves while both alive, then to the surviving spouse, and finally to transfer property to children/beneficiaries after the death of the second spouse so as to avoid probate issues. There is no real need to address federal estate tax issues, as the property will generally pass under the marital tax credit (although the laws concerning such credit are constantly changing).
- Revocable Joint Trust for Married Persons without Children: allows a married couple without children to establish a trust with a specifically named beneficiary, to allow the couple to pass along their estate to a charity, a non-relative, a cause, etc.
- Revocable Trust for Non-Married Persons with Children: For use by a single person whose property in total is worth less than $1,500,000 and who wants to provide income to him or herself during his or her life, and then transfer property to children/beneficiaries after their death so as to avoid probate issues. There is no real need to address federal estate tax issues, as the property will generally pass under the unified tax credit (although the laws concerning such credit are constantly changing).
- Revocable Trust for Non-Married Persons without Children: For use by a single person whose property in total is worth less than $1,500,000 and who wants to provide income to him or herself during his or her life, and then transfer property after their death (so as to avoid probate issues) to the persons that are named as designated beneficiaries. This document is useful for those who do not have children, do not want to transfer property to their children or who merely want additional flexibility in the transfer of property after their death. There is no real need to address federal estate tax issues, as the property will generally pass under the unified tax credit (although the laws concerning such credit are constantly changing).
- Revocable A/B Trust: If you are married and your estate is valued over $1,500,000, consider utilizing the revocable A/B Trust Form documents; this will allow you to take advantage of certain estate tax exemptions totaling $1,500,000 (or more in the future; see the A/B Trust documents for details).
Once the type of Trust that best suits your personal situaiton is determined, you may begin to create the Living Trust documents necessary by completing the fill-in-the-blank legal forms that are provided within the software. These legal forms include:
- Revocable Living Trust Forms
- Assignment of Assets Form
- Quitclaim Deeds for Real Property
- Pour-Over Will Forms
- Living Will with Advanced Healthcare Directive
- Notice of Final Disposition of Bodily Remains
- Durable Power of Attorney for Property
- Certificate of Trust
- HIPAA Medical Records Release Authorization
If you purchased these legal forms as individual software titles, the total would be well in excess of $100. But by choosing the Standard Legal Living Trust package, you get all of these legal forms plus a thorough overview of Trusts and how to use them, for much less!
Detail the financial side of a number of legal forms with this Financial Calculator Software Suite featuring a number of great tools! Amortization Schedule Calculator, Prepayment Calculator, Mortgage Qualifier Calculator, Loan Spread Calculator, Closing Costs Calculator, Quick Calculators, Rent versus Buy Calculator, Biweekly Payments Calculator, and a Home Seller's Proceeds Calculator. These tools let the parties in a financial transaction examine all of the pricing and financing options then build those final numbers into the legal documents!
The forms provide by The Standard Legal Network are the most up-to-date, legally accurate and easiest-to-use in the industry. Many of our competitors provide forms that are poorly formatted, out of date or simply filled with inaccurate instructions. Please take a minute to review the bullet points at the right detailing the 13 REASONS why our Standard Legal Software packages are the clear choice for do-it-yourself legal products! Also, check out the software format features listed below and you'll get a look inside the software to see how it works!
NOTE TO ATTORNEYS, PARALEGALS and LEGAL DOCUMENT PREPARATION PROFESSIONALS: The software described above is licensed only for use by do-it-yourself "pro se" customers who are creating legal forms for themselves or their immediate family members. If you are looking for legal form software that can be used on behalf of clients in a commercial situation, please review the information about our Professional Version software.
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The forms provided by Standard Legal are valid throughout the USA. Whenever necessary, state-specific language or forms are provided to cover all districts and territories:
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Bottom line, when you use forms from Standard Legal, you can quickly and easily create the same legal documents for which a local attorney would charge hundreds -- or even thousands -- of dollars. The net result can be a very substantial savings!
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Standard Legal guarantees that all of the documents provided within our software will be acceptable to the appropriate court or government agency, and will refund 100% of the purchase price should a document not be accepted due to our error.
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Just a note to thank you for your help with my Living Trust. I didn't expect such a quick reply! I really appreciate your fast, friendly service and easy-to-follow instructions. I think we've found an efficient and dependable company in Standard Legal! Best wishes...
-- Deanna Pozesny, Elizabethtown KY
After receiving my Living Trust software from you, it has made what I want to do with my properties so much easier, knowing the guidelines now. I live in a small town where we have more attorneys than businesses! But none of the attorneys could do my document work for me, saying they did not do "Trusts". I would have had to go to another town to get a Trust done, at a very high cost. Once I found out about Standard Legal, I am now about a month away from putting my properties into a trust, as to my wishes. Thank you once again!
-- Jim Shelton, Vanceburg KY
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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS & SOFTWARE FILE SPECIFICATIONS:
Standard Legal Software works on virtually all Windows, Apple / Mac, and Linux-based systems. Links to a downloadable file are presented immediately upon the completion of your transaction. The initial download is provided as a compressed .zip file which much be expanded to access a series of folders containing all of the legal forms, overview files and instruction files. To expand the initial download, most computers come with a decompression utility like WinZip pre-installed; if your computer does not have a .zip utility, we recommend StuffIt Expander (it's FREE!).
The Living Trust title contains an exceptionally large number of forms, given that there are multiple Trust structures and forms that are specific to personal situations under each structure. The initial Living Trust download presents only an overview of the Living Trust process and detailed instructions as to how to log on to our online forms server to download the forms specific to your personal situation. As such, an active web connection is required after the initial software download to access all of the necessary forms. (Read the START-HERE.txt file included in the initial download for specific instructions.) The online forms server allows for the most up-to-date legal documents to be available at any time, and prevents the user from downloading forms that will never be used. Once the proper forms are downloaded from our servers, they are to be completed offline; you do not need to be online to complete any of the forms.
Generally, the legal forms contained within each Standard Legal title are provided in three formats: as Microsoft Word files, as standard text files, and as Adobe PDF files. TO GET A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE FUNCTIONALITY OF OUR LEGAL FORM FORMATS -- AS WELL AS FULLY-WORKING SAMPLES OF THOSE FORMATS -- CLICK HERE. Note that some forms are provided in only one or two of the available formats.
The Standard Legal Living Trust forms are primarily formatted as Adobe PDF files because of the financial calculations required. Use of the PDF forms requires the download and installation of either Adobe's Acrobat Reader (it's FREE!), another vendor's PDF program that allows for the entering of data into form fields, or the full commercial version of Adobe Acrobat. The fully-featured commercial version of Microsoft Word is required to complete the Word-formatted forms. Other open-source and commercial word processing programs like Microsoft Works, WordPerfect, Word Pad, OpenOffice, Google Docs, Note Pad or Simple Text may also be used, but only with the "straight text" version of the forms.
Access to the password-protected online legal forms server (sometimes called "the online version") requires a java-enabled web browser like Internet Explorer 3.0 or later, which typically comes pre-installed on most systems. (If your system does not have a web browser, you can download the most recent version of Internet Explorer or Firefox for free.) Once you access the online version of our legal forms server, read the instructions provided on the main menu and download only the specific legal forms, overviews and instructions required for your situation. Once all of the necessary files are downloaded, you may complete those forms "offline" using the programs listed above.
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