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Rutkowski Law Firm explains living and irrevocable trusts in plain English and builds the right one for you.","Protect Your Family and Assets With the Right Trust","Michigan Trust Attorney","A living trust (revocable trust) protects your family by keeping you in control and avoiding probate, but it doesn't protect your assets from lawsuits or nursing home costs. An irrevocable trust gives up that control on purpose to gain real asset protection. Most Michigan families need to know which goal they're solving for before choosing. 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If you're the adult child comparing these two on behalf of a parent, ask your parent this same question directly, since the honest answer usually points to one trust clearly once you know which fear is actually driving the conversation.",{"type":49,"tag":50,"props":97,"children":99},{"id":98},"the-mistake-that-undoes-either-trust",[100],{"type":55,"value":101},"The Mistake That Undoes Either Trust",{"type":49,"tag":58,"props":103,"children":104},{},[105],{"type":55,"value":106},"A trust, revocable or irrevocable, only protects what's actually titled in its name. Signing the document is step one. Funding it, retitling your home, your accounts, your property, is the step that actually makes it work, and it's the step most families never finish on their own. 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