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A pour-over will be used as a method of
funding the trust after you have passed. A
pour-over will simply takes assets which are
not titled in the name of the revocable living
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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