A Nevada living trust that actually holds your home.
A trust is an empty box until the house is deeded into it — and an unfunded trust is the single most common reason a family still ends up in probate. TruPoint prepares your revocable living trust from $695, and the funding deed that moves the property in for a separate $250, e-recorded with your county the same day. In English or Vietnamese.
What it costs
- Revocable living trust — from $695
- Trust-funding deed, Declaration of Value included — $250
- Certificate of Trust — $200
- Affidavit of Successor Trustee — $250
- Same-day electronic recording of a document we prepare — $50
- Notarization — $15 first, $7 each additional in Clark County
- Retrieve the last recorded transfer — $30
- County recording fee, at cost — $37–$43
A bonded Nevada preparer, and a team you can reach.
Meet Quinnie Do
Quinnie founded TruPoint and leads a small team of document preparers working under the firm’s Nevada registration. We prepare the trust you direct and, critically, the deed that actually puts the property inside it — then record that deed with your county so the funding is real and on the public record, not a promise in a binder.
Quinnie is a native English and Vietnamese speaker, an IRS-registered tax return preparer and an IRS Certifying Acceptance Agent. For Clark County clients, notarization is available in our Las Vegas office by appointment, with a commissioned Nevada notary public who partners with the firm.
What a Nevada living trust does — and what it costs.
A Nevada revocable living trust holds your assets during your lifetime and passes them to the people you name at your death without going through probate. You stay in control: you can amend it, add to it, or revoke it entirely while you are alive. A trust only avoids probate for the assets actually transferred into it, which for a home means recording a trust-funding deed with the county. TruPoint, a registered and bonded Nevada Document Preparation Service in Las Vegas, prepares the trust from $695 and the funding deed for a separate $250, with the Declaration of Value included and same-day electronic recording available for $50.
Nevada sets probate attorney compensation by statute as a percentage of the estate, on a sliding scale that starts at four per cent of the first hundred thousand dollars and steps down as the estate grows. On a $500,000 estate that formula produces roughly $13,000 in attorney compensation alone, before the court’s own costs and before the months the process takes. That is the number a funded trust is measured against.
Las Vegas estate-planning attorneys commonly publish flat trust packages between $1,195 and $1,495, and one published Nevada estimate puts attorney-drafted trusts between $4,680 and $7,020. We are a document preparation service, not a law firm: we prepare the documents you direct at a published fee, and we say plainly when a situation calls for an attorney.
Not sure whether a trust or a Deed Upon Death fits your situation? Ask us — there is no charge for the question.
An unfunded trust is an empty box.
This is the part people discover too late, usually at a death, and it is the reason we quote the funding deed separately instead of burying it.
Signing the trust is step one
A trust document names a trustee, names beneficiaries and sets the terms. On its own it holds nothing. The county record still shows the house in your personal name.
The funding deed is step two
A deed transferring the property from you personally into the trust, recorded with the county where the property sits. Until that deed records, the home is not in the trust.
What happens if step two is skipped
The trust exists, the home does not sit inside it, and the property may still have to go through the process the trust was created to avoid. The family finds out at the worst possible moment.
Transfers into or out of a trust without consideration, with a certificate of trust present, are among the transfers Nevada recognises as exempt from the Real Property Transfer Tax. The funding deed still records with a Declaration of Value and still pays the county recording fee.
People who want it handled before it is urgent.
You own a Nevada home
Real property is the asset that most often forces a family into probate. A funded trust is the usual way owners keep it out.
You have children
You want to say who receives what, and when, rather than leaving it to a court process and the default rules.
You want privacy
Probate is a public court file. A trust distribution is not, which matters to people who would rather their affairs stayed private.
You already have a trust that owns nothing
Common. Someone drafted the trust years ago and nobody ever recorded the deed. We prepare and record the funding deed for $250.
You own property in more than one state
Property in a second state can mean a second court process. Where a trust is the answer, the funding still has to happen in each state.
You live out of state
You own a Nevada property and live elsewhere. Intake, notarization and recording are all handled remotely.
The trust and the deed, priced separately and honestly.
Trust drafted, deed recorded, funding real.
Intake
Tell us who the trustee and beneficiaries are, what property is involved, and how you want it distributed. We send a written disclosure, a contract naming the total price, and one payment link before drafting begins.
Prepare
We prepare the trust to your direction, and the funding deed with the Declaration of Value. A Certificate of Trust is available where a bank or title company asks for proof of the trust without the full document.
Sign, notarize, record
You sign before a commissioned Nevada notary, in our Las Vegas office by appointment or remotely. We submit the funding deed electronically to your county the same day, so the funding is on the public record.
Attorney, preparer, or online form — what each one gets you.
Nevada does not require an attorney to prepare a trust. Whether you need one depends on your circumstances, not on your budget, and we say so when the answer is yes.
If your situation involves a contested claim, a blended family with competing interests, a special-needs beneficiary, or a business to pass on, speak with an attorney. Those are advice questions, and a document preparation service is not permitted to answer them — nor should it try.
A registration you can check yourself.
TruPoint LLC is a registered, bonded Nevada Document Preparation Service working from a Las Vegas office. Confirm the business with the Nevada Secretary of State before you send anyone your family details or the legal description of your home. Nevada Secretary of State entity search
What goes with a trust.
Deed Upon Death
A simpler alternative for a single property. Names who inherits, keeps you in control, and is revocable at any time.
Quitclaim Deed
Often the instrument used to move a home into or out of a trust, or to add and remove owners.
Grant, Bargain and Sale Deed
Nevada’s standard conveyance, used where the transfer needs the statutory covenants.
Gift Deed
Transfer a property to family during your lifetime with no money changing hands.
Recording in Clark County
Las Vegas, Henderson and North Las Vegas — the $42 fee and what the recorder requires.
Certificate of Trust
What a bank asks for before it will retitle an account into your trust, without disclosing who inherits what. $200.
Affidavit of Successor Trustee
Where the trustee has died or resigned and the successor needs to be on title. $250.
All Nevada deeds
The full catalogue, with what each Nevada instrument does and when owners use it.
Property in California?
Trusts and deeds for California property are handled by our separate California office. TruPoint California
Living trust preparation in the valleys and small towns, not just Las Vegas.
Estate planning offices cluster in Las Vegas and Reno. If you farm in Mason Valley or run cattle in Smith Valley, the nearest one can be two hours away, and that distance is the reason a lot of rural Nevada property is still sitting in one person’s name with no plan attached to it.
The whole matter runs remotely. Intake is by phone or online, the trust is drafted to your direction, notarization is arranged where you are, and the funding deed that moves the property into the trust is submitted electronically to your own county recorder. Nothing requires a drive to town, and the price does not change because you live a long way from one.
We prepare living trusts and funding deeds for owners in Mason Valley, Smith Valley, Yerington, Fernley, Dayton and Silver Springs in Lyon County, in Fallon in Churchill County, in Winnemucca, Elko, Battle Mountain, Ely, Lovelock and Pahrump, and everywhere else in the state.
Ranch and farm ground raises one issue town property usually does not. Where land is held in more than one parcel, or where a parcel has been split off over the years, each parcel has its own legal description and each has to be named correctly in the funding deed. A trust that receives the house but misses the back forty leaves that piece exposed to probate. We work from the recorded descriptions rather than from memory, and we can retrieve them for $30 if you no longer have the paperwork.
Revocable or irrevocable — what you give up, and what you get.
Almost every Nevada homeowner who asks us for a living trust wants the revocable kind. It is worth understanding the difference before you decide, because the two are not interchangeable and one of them cannot be undone.
A revocable living trust is a container you still control. You are usually the trustee and the beneficiary during your lifetime, you can sell, refinance, add property, change beneficiaries or tear the whole thing up. Because you keep that control, the law still treats the property as yours — which is why a revocable trust does not shelter assets from your creditors and does not change your income tax position.
An irrevocable trust is the opposite trade. You hand over control, generally for good, and in exchange the property can sit outside your estate for certain purposes. People use them for asset protection, for particular tax objectives and in Medicaid planning. They are not a document to sign because a website said trusts are good, and the consequences of getting one wrong are difficult to reverse.
Where we draw the line. TruPoint prepares the trust you direct us to prepare. We can explain what each type does and does not do, in plain language, for as long as you need. What we cannot do is tell you which one suits your family, your creditors or your tax position — that is legal advice and it belongs with an attorney. If your situation points that way, we will say so rather than sell you a document.
What the successor trustee has to do, and the 120-day clock.
A revocable trust becomes irrevocable when the person who created it dies. At that moment the successor trustee named in the document takes over, and a set of steps begins that most families have never been told about.
The notice that closes the window. Nevada allows the trustee to serve notice on beneficiaries and on the settlor’s heirs once the trust becomes irrevocable. That notice has to carry a statement, in boldface twelve point type, that no action to contest the trust may be brought more than 120 days after the notice is served. Serve it properly and the window for challenges closes in four months. Never serve it and that window can stay open far longer, which is exactly the position a disappointed relative needs.
Proving the successor trustee has authority. Banks, title companies and buyers will ask the new trustee to prove they hold the office before they will deal with them. A Certificate of Trust does that without handing over the whole trust document and everything it says about who gets what. TruPoint prepares one for $200.
Property the trust never received. This is the failure we see most often. The trust was signed years ago, the funding deed was never recorded, and the house is still in the deceased person’s own name. The trust cannot pass what it never owned. What clears the record then depends on how title was actually held — if it was held with a right of survivorship, an Affidavit of Death of Joint Tenant clears it for $250. If a Deed Upon Death was recorded, the beneficiary records a Death of Grantor Affidavit, also $250. If neither applies, the property is part of the estate and the family is looking at probate on the very asset the trust was bought to protect.
Installing the successor trustee on title. When the trustee dies or steps down, the person taking over signs an Affidavit of Successor Trustee. Signing it formally installs them as trustee and is evidence of the same, and where the trust owns real property, recording it with the county recorder puts the successor trustee onto the title. Without it, the record still shows a trustee who is dead or no longer serving, and a bank or a buyer will stop the transaction there. TruPoint prepares it for $250.
Creditors have a clock too. Nevada gives known creditors thirty days from the date notice is mailed to them to file a written claim with the trustee, and ninety days from the first date of publication. Those windows run alongside the 120-day contest period, and a successor trustee who distributes the estate before they close can end up personally exposed to a claim that arrives afterwards.
A different document entirely. If you have been told you need a Substitution of Trustee, that belongs to a loan rather than a living trust. It is how a lender replaces the trustee named on a recorded deed of trust, it is not a living trust document at all. What a family needs after a death or a resignation is the Affidavit of Successor Trustee, and that is what we prepare.
A trust is only tested once you are not there to explain it.
Nevada does not require an attorney or a preparer to create a trust. Plenty of people download one and sign it. The reason we are blunt about the risk is that every mistake in a trust surfaces at the worst possible moment — after a death, in front of people who disagree about money.
Nevada treats a trust contest as ordinary civil litigation. The person challenging the trust is the plaintiff, the trustee is the defendant, and the written grounds have to be pleaded the way any civil complaint is pleaded. That means the family member you appointed — usually a son or daughter, usually grieving — becomes a defendant in a lawsuit, with the trust’s money funding the defence.
Nevada courts can also reach a revocable trust while the settlor is still alive, where the settlor cannot adequately protect their own interests or is shown to be susceptible to undue influence. A trust signed late in life, without a preparer or attorney in the room and without the formalities observed, is precisely the fact pattern that invites that argument.
Nevada also enforces no-contest clauses, subject to statutory exceptions. A clause of that kind is only as strong as the document it sits in, and a downloaded form that was never properly executed gives a challenger the opening to argue the whole instrument is invalid — which takes the clause down with it.
What we do about it. We prepare the trust to your direction and, critically, we prepare and record the funding deed that puts the property inside it, working from the recorded legal description rather than from memory. If something in a document we prepared is wrong on our end, we correct it and resubmit at no additional charge. We are not attorneys and we do not give legal advice — where a situation calls for it, we say so plainly and tell you to go and get it.
What people ask before setting one up, answered plainly.
TruPoint, a registered Nevada Document Preparation Service in Las Vegas, prepares a revocable living trust from $695, with the trust-funding deed that moves a property into it a separate $250 including the Declaration of Value, e-recorded in any of Nevada’s 17 recording jurisdictions in English and Vietnamese. Las Vegas estate-planning attorneys commonly publish flat trust packages between $1,195 and $1,495, and one published Nevada estimate puts attorney-drafted trusts between $4,680 and $7,020.
Because it is separate work: a deed transferring the property into the trust, prepared with a Declaration of Value and recorded with the county where the property sits. A trust with nothing deeded into it holds an empty box, so most people with a Nevada home need both. Quoting them separately means you can see exactly what each step costs.
A revocable living trust avoids probate for the assets actually transferred into it. For real property that means recording a funding deed with the county. Assets never moved into the trust are not covered by it, which is why an unfunded trust so often fails to do the one job it was created for.
Nevada sets probate attorney compensation by statute as a percentage of the estate, starting at four per cent of the first hundred thousand dollars and stepping down as the estate grows. On a $500,000 estate the formula produces roughly $13,000 in attorney compensation alone, before court costs and before the months the process takes.
Nevada does not require one. A registered Document Preparation Service prepares the documents at your direction. If your situation involves a contested claim, a blended family with competing interests, a special-needs beneficiary or a business to pass on, those are advice questions and belong with an attorney — we will tell you so.
A revocable living trust can be amended or revoked while you are alive. It becomes irrevocable at your death. That flexibility is the reason most Nevada homeowners choose a revocable trust over an irrevocable one.
Transfers into or out of a trust without consideration, with a certificate of trust present, are among the transfers Nevada recognises as exempt from the Real Property Transfer Tax. The funding deed still records with a Declaration of Value and still pays the county recording fee.
It is a short document proving the trust exists and who has authority to act, without disclosing the full terms. Banks and title companies commonly ask for one instead of the whole trust. TruPoint prepares a Certificate of Trust for $200.
An Affidavit of Successor Trustee. Signing it formally installs the successor as trustee and is evidence of the same, and where the trust owns real property, recording it with the county recorder puts the successor trustee onto the title. Until it is recorded, the record still shows a trustee who is no longer serving. TruPoint prepares it for $250.
No. A Substitution of Trustee belongs to a deed of trust rather than a living trust. It is how a lender replaces the trustee named on a recorded deed of trust, it is not a living trust document at all. What a family needs after a death or a resignation is the Affidavit of Successor Trustee, and that is what we prepare.
A trust covers the whole estate and handles incapacity as well as death. A Deed Upon Death covers one property, costs $250, and is revocable during your life. Which fits your circumstances is your decision — we explain what each does and prepare the one you direct.
Yes, and it is one of the more common things we are asked to do. We prepare the funding deed with the Declaration of Value for $250 and record it with your county, which puts the property inside the trust you already have.
Yes. Intake, document review, notarization and electronic recording are all handled remotely, and out-of-state owners of Nevada property are a regular part of our work.
Yes. Quinnie Do is a native English and Vietnamese speaker and handles the entire matter in either language, from intake through signing.
Set up a trust that actually holds the house.
From $695 for the trust, plus $250 for the funding deed that moves the property in and records it with your county. Tell us what you own and who you want it to go to, and we will quote the whole thing in writing before any work begins.