Creating a Trust in Your Oklahoma Estate Plan

Creating a Trust

Creating a trust in Oklahoma isn’t as hard as many people think. When developing your estate plan, you have the option to incorporate trusts as part of your strategy. Trusts can serve as valuable tools to ensure your assets are distributed according to your wishes, while potentially avoiding the probate process. Understanding the process of creating a trust and the…

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How Do I Transfer Property To A Trust In Oklahoma?

Purpose of a Family Trust

For the purpose of Estate Planning its important to know how you transfer property to a Trust that you own. Understanding trusts and property transfers in Oklahoma can be complex, but it’s important for managing your estate effectively. The last thing that you want is for their plan to fail due to a lack of funding the trust. This blog…

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What Is An Executors Role Selling A House That’s In Oklahoma Probate

Executors Role Selling A House

The executors role selling a house is strictly guided by Oklahoma probate law. When someone appoints you as an executor of a will, you will face many responsibilities. Among those might be selling a house. This can be challenging and confusing, especially if it’s your first time handling an estate’s affairs. To help guide you in this process, we have…

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Business Succession And Estate Planning in Oklahoma

Business Succession is an important part of well imagined estate planning. Life can change in the blink of an eye. One minute your life is excellent and exactly how you thought it would be. The next moment, you or a loved one needs immediate medical attention and may be recovering from a significant unplanned operation; you may be left to…

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What To Know About Intestate Distribution In Oklahoma

Jury Selection in Tulsa

Intestate distribution In Oklahoma impacts who gets what in a probate court. Losing a loved one is hard. It’s even harder when the family begins bickering over rights and inheritances. Did the deceased leave behind a will or did they die without a will? How do you know, for sure, who gets what? If you’re in Oklahoma and find yourself…

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Estate Planning and Oklahoma Spousal Lifetime Access Trust (SLAT)

Oklahoma Spousal Lifetime Access Trust is a great tool used to shelter assets. A Spousal Lifetime Access Trust (SLAT) is a written irrevocable trust that one spouse establishes for the benefit of the other. The goal of a SLAT is to transfer assets into a trust that is available to provide some financial assistance to the spouse, but to exclude…

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Irrevocable Trusts in Oklahoma

Step children and estate planning

In Estate Planning people often turn to trusts as a way of passing assets to avoid probate. One of the many trusts available is the Irrevocable trust. Irrevocable Trusts are trusts that cannot be altered or ended once they are executed. Unlike revocable trust, they don’t allow for modification and termination if the trust creator has to make changes. Although an irrevocable trust…

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