Trust Attorney in Northeast Georgia

Unlike a will, a properly funded trust avoids probate, so your family receives assets faster, more privately, and at lower cost. GA Law Group drafts and funds trusts for Northeast Georgia families in a wide range of situations.

Revocable Living Trusts

A revocable living trust is the most flexible planning tool available. You keep full control during your lifetime and can amend or revoke it at any time. At death it becomes irrevocable, and your successor trustee distributes the assets without probate.

Irrevocable Trusts

When asset protection or Medicaid planning is the goal, a properly structured irrevocable trust can move assets out of your taxable estate and beyond the reach of future creditors. You give up direct control, and transfers are subject to Medicaid's five-year look-back, so these trusts require careful planning.

Special Needs Trusts

A supplemental needs trust allows a family member with a disability to inherit assets without losing eligibility for SSI, Medicaid, or other means-tested government benefits. It is one of the most consequential decisions a family can make, and it needs to be done correctly the first time.

Funding Your Trust

A trust that is not properly funded is just paper. We help clients retitle real estate, financial accounts, and other assets into the trust, and we coordinate beneficiary designations on life insurance and retirement accounts.