Looking to create a family trust brought these concerns.Who knows that we have a trust if no records created in the county.Why have an attorney for this? My attorney was crossing the words in the template he printed. I can do it myself. He wrote different words on the top.All this makes me to think that pay to attorney not needed . I feel doomed.When I die what is a legal document with my directive what Todo. Please ignore my ESL grammar.
You may need to have an attorney in a law firm be one of the trustees. My SFIL was a trustee for a cognitively impaired cousin (born that way) after the cousin's parents passed away. The other trustee was an attorney. This way, there was accountability and the attorney would know how to interpret the trust. They (the attorney and my SFIL) were paid to perform this function. The money came from funds in the trust.
The real issue is how will your trustees know you have crossed the line into cognitive impairment to the point where your trustees need to act if you aren't the one informing them? This is a discussion for the attorney.
Another option is to pre-assign a legal guardian and move yourself into a facility that has a continuum of care, from IL to AL to MC to LTC to hospice. Look for ones that are non-profit, like faith-based ones. My MIL was in an excellent one run by Presbyterian Homes (here in the midwest). You don't have to be of that faith, or any faith, to be a resident in most faith-based facilities. PH has been around since the 50s.
Is this Trust irrevocable or revocable? Do you fully understand the difference between the two?
You can do it yourself?
That sort of hubris may get you in a good deal of trouble.
Trusts are EXCEPTIONALLY tricky.
And Trusts are not recorded. They need not be recorded even upon the death of the Trustee, because it is not owned by a person, but by an entity--a Trust.
You don't understand trusts, nor even know when, if or how they are recorded, so how could you imagine yourself capable of making one off a template?
I wish you luck, whatever your decision. I would be reading up to begin with on Trusts for Dummie; a great way to get an overview.
I will warn you about the most common error in Trusts. The Trust gets CREATED but the property and assets are not MOVED INTO THE TRUST (a complicated process itself). That means it is a worthless piece of paper, because the property isn't owned by the Trust, but by the individual still.