{"id":33,"date":"2026-09-07T11:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-law-firm-pro\/2026\/09\/07\/will-or-living-trust-which-fits-your-family\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T11:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:54:15","slug":"will-or-living-trust-which-fits-your-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-law-firm-pro\/2026\/09\/07\/will-or-living-trust-which-fits-your-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Will or living trust: which fits your family?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both a will and a living trust say who receives what you own. They differ in cost, privacy and how much work your family faces later.<\/p>\n<h2>A will<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Lower upfront cost<\/li>\n<li>Names guardians for young children<\/li>\n<li>Goes through probate, which is public and can take months<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>A living trust<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Higher upfront cost and some paperwork to fund it<\/li>\n<li>Usually avoids probate entirely<\/li>\n<li>Keeps your estate private<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th><\/th>\n<th>Will<\/th>\n<th>Living trust<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Avoids probate<\/td>\n<td>No<\/td>\n<td>Usually<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Private<\/td>\n<td>No<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Names guardians<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<td>With a pour-over will<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Many families use both. We can recommend the right mix at a flat-fee first meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A side-by-side look at cost, privacy and how each one works when it matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11,12],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wills-and-estates","tag-estate-planning","tag-probate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-law-firm-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-law-firm-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-law-firm-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-law-firm-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-law-firm-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-law-firm-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-law-firm-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-law-firm-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-law-firm-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-law-firm-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}