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Estate Structure Explorer

Which estate structures should you discuss with an attorney? Ranked by relevance to your situation — this builds your meeting agenda, not your documents.

Not legal advice. This tool ranks structures worth discussing with a licensed estate attorney in your state — it cannot tell you what to set up, and estate law varies significantly by state.

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Probate pain varies hugely by state — heavy-probate states make trusts earn their cost sooner.

How these results work

Each structure declares which parts of your profile it genuinely speaks to. Your picks add up — the #1 pick in a ranked bucket counts most, and anything you didn’t pick counts exactly zero; every card shows precisely which picks moved it. Common foundations start ahead of rare specialist structures until your own answers earn them up.

The output is an agenda, not a plan: the top-ranked structures are the ones worth raising with a licensed estate attorney, who is the only one who can tell you what to actually set up.

Scores are computed instantly in your browser. Your answers are saved to your account only if you sign in; otherwise they stay on this device.

Not legal advice — estate law is state-specific and fact-specific. Every output here is a discussion item for a licensed estate attorney. Scores are computed in your browser; answers are saved to your account only if you sign in.