Trusts Archives - Siedentopf Law

June 25, 2025

How to Set Up a Trust in Georgia to Protect Your Family

How to set up a trust in Georgia: A step-by-step guide When a loved one passes, the last thing any family wants is to get stuck in legal limbo. But without the right planning, important assets can get tied up in Georgia’s probate courts, a public process that can stretch on for months (or even years). A trust helps you spare your family that burden. Setting up a

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June 25, 2025

Estate Planning for Georgia Parents | Protect Your Kids

Estate planning for parents in Georgia: How to protect your kids If something happened to you tomorrow, would your kids be okay? It’s a question most parents don’t want to think about, but it’s also one of the most important questions to answer early. And yet the vast majority of adults (nearly 7 in 10) don’t have an estate plan at all. In Georgia, estate planning isn’t just

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June 25, 2025

Estate Planning for Georgia Rental Property Owners

Estate planning for Georgia rental property owners: What happens to your investment properties? You’ve spent years building your wealth through rental properties. Whether you rent a single-family home for side income or own a growing portfolio of multi-family units and investment properties, those assets represent significant value and opportunity for your family. But without the right estate plan, those same properties could become a legal and financial burden

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December 13, 2024

How Can an Estate Plan Help

How can an estate plan help? I’ve heard a lot about estate plans and that I should have an estate plan, but how does that actually help? https://youtu.be/WlZ7iyTU4QU And an estate plan essentially covers both the things that we know will eventually happen and the unexpected. Imagine that you are in a car accident, and now you're in the hospital. Who is paying your bills? Who is making

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December 6, 2024

What is the “Death Tax”? How Many People Actually Need to Worry About It?

What is the death tax and how many people actually need to worry about that? https://youtu.be/sk0pU7HR90A Death taxes are a catchall term for taxes associated with someone's passing, and generally, people are talking about either estate tax or inheritance tax. And I will skip to the punch with Georgia residents, we don't have inheritance tax, we don't have a estate tax, but federally, there is a estate tax

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November 25, 2024

How to Fund a Trust

I've got a trust, but I'm not sure it's funded or even what that means. https://youtu.be/k3fEDt0X-AM Hi, I’m Sarah Siedentopf. I’m an estate planning attorney in Atlanta, Georgia. Funding your trust is such an important thing and such a misunderstood thing, so that’s what we’re gonna discuss today. What is funding a trust? And the first thing I want you to think about is an empty box. So

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November 22, 2024

Can a Trust Replace My Will?

If you have a trust, can it replace your will? https://youtu.be/zU31jGgRysw And my advice is, probably it should not. The deal with wills, of course, is that they have to go through probate. And so in order to make whatever you've put in your will happen, we have to apply to the probate court, fill out the correct forms, get the correct signatures, everything has to look perfect,

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November 18, 2024

Intergenerational Wealth: Trustees and Trust Protectors

I've got grandchildren and I wanna make sure they're provided for. I don't wanna leave everything just to my children and you know, hope they manage it well. I’m Sarah Siedentopf, I’m an estate planning attorney in Atlanta, Georgia. https://youtu.be/p1N4gbrESkk Intergenerational wealth, so the transfer to multiple generations down to your children, let them manage it, figure out what to do with it on their end and then

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November 15, 2024

Who Should I Name as a Trustee in My Estate Plan

Who should I name as a trustee in my estate plan? I’m thinking about a trust, I’m thinking about a will that has a trust inside it, but I’m kind of stuck on who should be trustee. https://youtu.be/gNMjEYoQ1Cc The first thing to think about when you're trying to decide who should be trustee is what are the actual roles and duties of the trustee? For many, many trusts,

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October 28, 2024

Creditors and Your Estate Plan

I'm worried about my creditors and what will happen to my estate and my family after I've passed away. What happens with my mortgage? What happens with my student loans? What happens with my other debts? https://youtu.be/WZRz6qs0kIg I'm Sarah Siedentopf. I'm an estate planning attorney in Atlanta, Georgia, and that's what we're gonna discuss. What happens with debts after you pass away. And the first thing to know

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