ABA Family Legal Guide

Estate Planning

Other Estate-Planning Assets and Tools

When Circumstances Change

I want to make some very sweeping changes to my trust. How do I do this?

You should revoke, not amend, your trust when making major changes. You revoke a trust by destroying all copies of it or writing "revoked" on each page and signing them. When you create a new trust to replace a revoked one, give the new trust a different name, usually one containing the date the new document was executed.