RLT
Law & Legal abbreviation · Estate and Family Law
| Stands for | Revocable living trust |
|---|---|
| Categories | Law & Legal |
RLT stands for Revocable living trust, an estate and family law abbreviation.
Trust that a person creates and controls during life, usually acting as trustee, which holds title to assets and passes them to beneficiaries at death without probate. The creator can change or revoke it at any time.
Example: Because the house was retitled into their RLT, the children avoided probate entirely.
Usage notes
It gives no estate tax savings or creditor protection while the creator is alive, because the assets remain under the creator's control. It works only if funded by retitling assets; a pour-over will catches anything left out. It also lets a successor trustee manage assets if the creator becomes incapacitated. Often simply called a living trust.
Related abbreviations
More estate and family law abbreviations
- PR – Personal representative
- PSA – Property settlement agreement
- QDOT – Qualified domestic trust
- QDRO – Qualified domestic relations order
- QPRT – Qualified personal residence trust
- QTIP – Qualified terminable interest property
- SAPCR – Suit affecting the parent-child relationship
- SLAT – Spousal lifetime access trust
- SNT – Special needs trust
- TIC – Tenants in common
- TOD – Transfer on death
- TPR – Termination of parental rights
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This entry is for general education and is not legal advice. Abbreviation use varies between institutions; always confirm in context.