Once you have signed your living trust document, the next step is to change titles and beneficiary designations to your trust. This is called “funding” your living trust.
Thanks to the generous $5 million exemption for individuals who pass away in 2011 or 2012, the assets of relatively few people in the United States will be exposed to the federal estate tax over the next few years.
Carol Carr was trying to end the suffering of her sons, who were 42 and 41 years old, when she shot and killed them at a Georgia nursing home last month.