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trust and pours them into the trust. This is
accomplished by judicial supervision, but the
judge has a very limited role simply retitling

the assets in the name of the trust.

A trust does not go through probate. The only
assets that go through probate, if you have a
revocable living trust, are the assets that you
have not titled in the name of the trust –

which is why we almost always have a pour-
over will. The pour-over will provides
instructions to the probate court to simply
take those untitled assets and pour them into

the revocable living trust bucket. The trust is
not a public record.

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