Living Trust Attorney in Jefferson County
Make It Easier on the People You Leave Behind
Our living trust attorney in Jefferson County, Colorado, drafts your trust and helps move your assets into it, so it can actually do its job later.
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How a Living Trust Works in Colorado
What a Revocable Living Trust Does
August & Suchowski drafts revocable living trusts for families across Jefferson County, Colorado. Revocable means you can change or cancel it at any point while you're alive, and you keep control of everything inside it.
The trust holds title to your assets instead of you personally. When you die, what's in it passes to your beneficiaries without probate. That only happens if the assets were retitled into the trust first, which is the step most often skipped. An empty trust leaves the estate exactly where it started.
Homeowners, Blended Families, and Multi-State Owners
Most people who ask our Jefferson County estate planning team about a trust own real estate, and often more than one property. Some have children from an earlier marriage. Some want privacy the court process doesn't offer.
The concerns come out quickly. "I don't want my kids fighting over the house." "We own a place in another state." "Does my family have to go to court for this?"
Trusts Drafted by a Firm That Also Settles Them
Michael Suchowski leads estate planning at August & Suchowski and has practiced law since 2000. Elizabeth August administers trusts and estates from our Wheat Ridge office, so the same firm that writes a trust also sees how trusts perform once someone has passed.
Not everyone needs a trust, and we'll tell you when a will is enough. Both attorneys are licensed in Colorado, and this is the only kind of work the firm takes.
Funding the Trust Is the Real Work
The usual trigger is property. Buying a second home, inheriting land, or realizing that real estate in another state would mean opening ancillary probate, a separate court case in that state. Any of those make a trust worth the conversation.
Our Wheat Ridge office replies to new inquiries within one business day, and the first consultation is free. Trust work is typically handled on a flat fee, quoted before drafting starts.
Serving Jefferson County and Colorado
Trust work runs from our Wheat Ridge office, covering Lakewood, Arvada, Golden, Westminster, and Edgewater within about ten miles. Michael also meets clients by video anywhere in Colorado.
Funding a trust means recording new deeds and updating account titles, which involves the county clerk where each property sits. That's Jefferson County for most of our clients. A trust is one piece of the broader work covered on our estate planning attorney page.
Why us?
Families Helped Across Colorado
Years Combined legal experience
Locations: Wheat ridge & Fort collins
The Best Time
To Plan is Before You Need It
Most people call us after something happens. A diagnosis, a friend's family fighting over an estate, a new grandchild. You don't have to wait for one of those. Tell us what's on your mind, and we'll tell you honestly whether you need a plan yet.
How the Estate Planning Process Works with Us
free call
Tell us about your family and assets, and we will map the options.
clear plan
We draft documents that match your actual situation, not a generic online template.
Signed & Funded
We make sure the plan is executed properly and actually holds your assets.
The August & Suchowski Difference
FAQs
Not everyone does. A trust makes the most sense when there's real estate, property in more than one state, a blended family, or a strong preference for privacy. Plenty of Colorado families are well served by a will alone. We'll tell you honestly which fits your situation.
A will takes effect after death and generally goes through probate court. A living trust holds assets while you're alive and passes them to beneficiaries without probate. Most people who have a trust also have a will, since it catches anything left outside the trust.
Funding means retitling assets into the trust's name, like recording a new deed on your house or changing how an account is held. A trust that was signed but never funded controls nothing. This is the step that gets skipped most often and the one we handle directly.
Yes. Revocable means you can amend or cancel it whenever you want while you have capacity, the legal ability to make those decisions. You also keep full use of everything inside it. That flexibility is why most family trusts are written this way.
It can. Real property in another state usually requires a separate probate case there, but property held in a properly funded trust generally passes without one. That's the most common reason our clients with out-of-state property set one up.
A Trust That Was Never Funded Protects Nobody
Estate Planning Attorney in Wheat Ridge, Colorado
We're on Kipling Street just north of West 41st Avenue, a few minutes from the Kipling exit off I-70. Free parking is available on-site, and the suite is on the second floor with elevator access from the lobby. We also keep a second office in Fort Collins for clients in Northern Colorado.