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Iowa Revocable Living Trust
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A Iowa Revocable Living Trust holds your assets — your home, accounts, and personal property — under a structure you control while you're alive and that hands them off privately when you're gone. The right answer in Iowa for most families is the same as in every other state: skip probate, keep things private, and stay in control.
About the Iowa Living Trust
Trust documents, title evidence, and recording requirements vary by transaction, asset, county, recipient, and current Iowa law. Before using a trust for a bank, title, or property transaction, confirm the recipient's requirements and work with state-licensed counsel and title professionals on any deed, authority evidence, or recording process.
You answer one questionnaire — names, beneficiaries, trustees, successor trustees — and we produce the full trust binder in minutes. You can revoke or amend it at any time, which is what "revocable" means: the trust is yours, and the documents reflect that explicitly.
The trust pairs with a Pour-Over Will (also generated for you) so anything you forgot to title into the trust during your lifetime falls into the trust at death — a belt-and-braces backstop Iowa probate judges expect to see.
Iowa launches soon — what you can do today
Our full Iowa estate-planning binder isn't live yet. Reserve your spot above and you'll be notified the moment it launches. In the meantime, three of our documents work in every state today — HIPAA Authorization, Execution Checklist, and Notary Guide — bundled together for $49.
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Bank and title-company requirements vary by institution, county, asset, and transaction. Ask the recipient which authority evidence and title documents it requires, and work with state-licensed counsel and title professionals before relying on a trust for a transfer or recording.
A will tells a Iowa probate court what to do after you die. A revocable living trust holds your assets now, while you're alive, so most of those assets never go through Iowa probate at all. Most families use both: the trust for the assets, plus a short pour-over will to catch anything left out.
Yes — a trust only avoids probate for assets that are actually titled in the trust's name. The Premium plan includes a Iowa-style Warranty Deed plus a cover letter you mail to your county clerk's office to record the deed and move the property into the trust. If you own a home, choose Premium.
Yes — that is the entire point of "revocable." While you're alive and competent, you can amend, restate, or completely revoke the trust whenever you want. You can also regenerate the trust documents from your dashboard up to five times within the same plan.
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The Iowa Living Trust is one piece of a complete Iowa estate-planning binder — will, trust, financial and medical powers of attorney, HIPAA, and more.
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