How does one place property into a Revocable Living Trust?

If you create a trust, you will need to decide what property of yours should be placed into your trust so that your trust assumes legal control over it. Property is placed into to a trust simply by changing its title to name the trust as its legal owner. This process of changing title is called “funding” the trust.

Almost any type of property can be funded into a trust. The funding process consists of simply signing documents that name the trust as the new owner of your property. For example, some assets such as real estate, are funded into a trust by preparing and signing a new deed that names the trust as the new owner.

Other assets such as savings accounts, are funded into a trust by signing a new signature card that names the trust as the new owner of the account. Still other assets (personal property including household furnishings, jewelry, etc.), are funded into a trust by signing a document known as an “assignment” that names the trust as its new owner.