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(Minor changes should simply be made to existing documents.)<\/p>\n<p>Remember, it is important to notify any and all banks, mortgage companies, etc. referenced in the existing trust that you are creating a new trust and revoking the prior one, so that there are no questions later. You should also consider notifying beneficiaries and any other persons referenced in the revoked document as well.<\/p>\n<p>[Get complete details on <a title=\"Living Trust legal forms software by Standard Legal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.standardlegal.com\/Living-Trust.html\">Standard Legal&#8217;s Living Trust legal forms software<\/a> here.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assuming that you are creating a new Living Trust with the intent of replacing your existing one (i.e., you are not creating a second trust funded with assets not covered previously), the new Trust documents would supersede and take precedence over the existing documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-trust-questions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>If I Create a New Living Trust with Standard Legal, How Does It Affect My Existing Trust? 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