Foundational Estate Planning
Protect Your Family with a Revocable Living Trust
An Arizona revocable living trust can help you stay in control of your assets during your lifetime while giving your loved ones a more private, efficient way to carry out your wishes if you become incapacitated or pass away.
What it does
Stay in Control While Planning Ahead
A Revocable Living Trust lets you transfer assets into a trust while maintaining control of them throughout your lifetime. You decide who manages your trust if you become incapacitated, who receives your assets after you pass away, and how those assets are distributed to your beneficiaries. Unlike a will, a properly funded Revocable Living Trust can help your loved ones avoid probate, maintain privacy, and reduce delays after you’re gone. It can also provide added protection for minor children, blended families, loved ones with special needs, and beneficiaries who may not be ready to receive an inheritance outright.
Who it’s for
Is a Revocable Living Trust Right for You?
How it works
Our Four-Step Process
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Schedule Your Free Consultation
Meet with one of our experienced revocable living trust attorneys to discuss your situation, your assets, and your goals. We’ll educate you on the estate plan that’s best for your individual goals and provide clear, upfront pricing.
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Prepare Your Estate Plan
If you decide to move forward, we’ll begin preparing your Revocable Living Trust and the supporting estate planning documents customized to your individual goals.
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Review & Implement Your Estate Plan
When your estate plan is ready, you’ll meet with your attorney to review your estate plan, ask questions, and implement your estate plan.
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Fund Your Trust
We’ll help you transfer the appropriate assets into your trust and guide you through the trust funding process, so your estate plan works as intended. Through our Lifetime Service Package, you’ll also receive ongoing reviews to help keep your estate plan up to date as your life and Arizona law change.
What's included
Documents you receive.
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Holds your assets and provides instructions for managing and distributing them according to your wishes.
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Helps ensure assets left outside your trust are distributed according to your estate plan.
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Verifies your trust without revealing the assets and the private provisions of your trust.
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Documents your medical wishes and authorizes someone you trust to make health care decisions if needed.
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Allows someone you trust to manage financial and legal matters if you’re incapacitated.
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Guidance on transferring assets into your trust, including deed and vehicle transfers.
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Additional protections tailored to your loved ones, your assets, and your long-term goals.
Why Phelps LaClair
46+ years designing trusts that actually work.
Our experienced living trust lawyers have been helping Arizona residents design and implement Living Trusts and Wills for more than 45 years.
We don’t prepare boilerplate estate plans. Each plan is customized to your situation, your assets, and your goals.
We emphasize proper trust funding because an unfunded or poorly funded trust can still leave your loved ones facing probate.
Our relationship-based approach includes ongoing support, plan reviews, educational resources, and trust maintenance services with no annual fees.
Estate planning is our sole focus, allowing us to provide personalized guidance backed by decades of experience.
What it costs
Straightforward Pricing. No Surprises.
Custom Quote
A comprehensive Revocable Living Trust plan typically ranges from $2,500–$5,500+, depending on your individual needs and the complexity of your estate. We provide a flat-fee quote during your free consultation, so you’ll know the cost before any work begins.
Common questions
Your Revocable Living Trust Questions, Answered
This information is educational and not a substitute for advice from a licensed Arizona attorney.
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Get started
Personalized Guidance Starts Here
Meet with one of our attorneys to discuss your situation, your assets, and what matters most to you. We'll answer your questions and provide clear, upfront pricing with no obligation.