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Nevada Trusts

Trusts that are built right — and funded right.

Whether you’re creating a trust, funding one, or administering a loved one’s after they’ve passed, the details decide whether it works. We handle all three.

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Nevada trust law

One of the strongest trust jurisdictions in the country

Funding done properly

Deeds prepared and recorded, accounts coordinated

Trustee support

We guide successor trustees through every duty

Private, not public

Trust administration stays out of the court file

Who We Help

When people call a trust attorney.

Roughly half our trust work is building them. The other half is helping someone administer one they didn’t ask to be in charge of.

No obligation. No pressure. Just a clear answer on where you stand.

What We Handle

Trust work, from drafting through distribution.

A trust is a relationship that lasts decades. We handle it at every stage.

Trust creation

Revocable living trusts drafted on Nevada law and scoped to your family.

Funding

Deeds prepared and recorded, accounts and beneficiary designations coordinated.

Trust administration

Guiding successor trustees through notice, accounting, and distribution after a death.

Amendments and restatements

Updating a trust after marriage, divorce, births, deaths, or a move to Nevada.

Asset protection trusts

Nevada self-settled spendthrift trusts and structures for business owners.

Trust disputes

Disagreements over administration, accounting, or a trustee's conduct.

What Happens Next

How trust administration actually goes.

If you’ve just been handed this role, here’s the shape of what’s ahead.

Step One

Phone Consultation

During your first call with an attorney, we’ll read the trust, explain what it requires of you, and tell you what has to happen first.

SAME DAY OR NEXT DAY
Step Two

Notice and inventory

Beneficiaries are notified, assets are identified and valued, and the trust’s obligations are mapped out.

FIRST FEW WEEKS
Step Three

Debts, taxes, and property

Claims are addressed, real property is handled or sold, and records are kept to the standard a trustee is held to.

THE BULK OF THE WORK
Step Four

Distribution

Assets go to beneficiaries under the trust terms, with documentation that protects you as trustee.

FINAL STEP
Straight Answers

How long it takes, and what it costs.

The two questions everyone asks on the first call.

Typical trust timelines

Ranges for cooperative beneficiaries and clean records. Disputes and hard-to-value assets extend these.

Creating and signing a trust

2–4 weeks

Funding real property

1–2 weeks

Straightforward administration

4–8 months

The advantage over probate: trust administration generally happens without court supervision, which means no public case file and no waiting on a hearing calendar. That’s most of why people build them.

How trust fees work

Two different kinds of work, priced two different ways.

Flat fees for drafting

Creating and funding a trust is predictable work, and we quote it as one number.

Administration scoped up front

After a death, we scope the administration.

Often paid from trust assets

Administration fees and costs are typically paid from the trust rather than by the trustee personally.

Third-party costs itemized

Recording fees, appraisals, and tax preparation are explained before they're incurred.

If you’re a successor trustee: you are personally accountable for how the trust is administered. A short consultation before you act is the cheapest protection available to you.

Still not sure where you stand?

One short call is usually enough to know. Free, and no obligation to hire us.

Who You'll Work With

Sarah leads this work.

Sarah Ocampo · Founding Attorney · Partner & CEO

Sarah has built and administered Nevada trusts for over two decades, for families and business owners alike, and handles the deed work that makes them function.

In Their Words

Families and owners who've been where you are.

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Common Questions

Trusts, answered plainly

The questions we get on almost every first call.

A will directs what happens to your property and takes effect through the probate court. A trust holds property during your life and passes it to beneficiaries without court supervision, provided the assets were actually transferred into it.

Most Nevada homeowners who want their family to avoid probate use a revocable living trust, with a pour-over will as backup.

Funding is the transfer of assets into the trust’s name — recording a deed for real property, retitling accounts, and updating beneficiary designations. It is the step that makes a trust work, and the step most commonly left undone.

Don’t distribute anything yet. A trustee has duties to every beneficiary, including notice, recordkeeping, and impartiality, and mistakes made early are hard to unwind. Bring the trust document to a consultation and we’ll map out the order of operations.

For assets held in the trust, yes. Anything left outside it — a car, a bank account, a property that was never deeded in — may still require a probate process, though small-estate options often apply.

A revocable trust can be amended or revoked while you’re alive and competent. Irrevocable trusts are far more limited, though Nevada law provides some mechanisms for modification. Which one you have determines the answer.

No. That privacy is one of the main reasons people choose them. A will that goes through probate becomes part of a public court file; a trust administration generally does not.

Nevada permits self-settled spendthrift trusts, meaning you can be a beneficiary of a trust that is also shielded from future creditors, subject to a statutory seasoning period before that protection matures. It’s a specialised structure with strict requirements and it isn’t right for everyone.

Not necessarily, but it should be reviewed. Nevada has its own rules on trustee powers, homestead, and community property, and out-of-state documents frequently need amendment — and any Nevada real property needs to be deeded correctly regardless.

Question not covered here? Ask an attorney directly.

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