Guides › Estate, Probate & Inheritance › Living Trust Cost
Updated September 24, 2026. Quick answer: An attorney-drafted revocable living trust in Nevada has a median price of $2,900, with the middle half of firms charging $2,450–$3,350 (LegalTemplates’ 2026 study of 909 law firms). That puts Nevada at the 16th-cheapest of the 20 states compared here, coming in over the $2,475 national median for a standalone trust. A DIY platform runs $149 to $649. What that spend buys locally: Nevada charges $72.00 to open probate when the estate is worth more than $2,500, and nothing at all below that line.
Whether the state taxes the trust’s income is a separate question: does Nevada tax trust income.
Fast routes: National living trust cost guide | Nevada probate filing fee | Nevada probate cost | Is a living trust worth it in Nevada?
If you choose a document service
Review the living-trust option
LawDepot builds a state-specific revocable living trust from guided questions. Check the price and retitling instructions before you buy.
If you need advice about your situation, compare the attorney route above before choosing a document service.
The link goes to LawDepot, a paid legal-document service, not Clear Money Guide and not a law firm. LawDepot pays Clear Money Guide a commission if you buy a document there, at no extra cost to you. You are under no obligation to buy anything. We are not a law firm and this is not legal advice.
Review LawDepot’s living trustOpens on LawDepot. Follow the signing and retitling instructions for your state.
How our partner relationships workLiving trust cost in Nevada: attorney vs DIY
The numbers at a glance:
| Figure | Amount |
|---|---|
| Nevada attorney-drafted trust, median | $2,900 |
| Nevada attorney-drafted trust, middle 50% | $2,450–$3,350 |
| National median, all 50 states and DC | $2,475 |
| DIY document platform range | $149–$649 |
Attorneys who bundle the trust into a fuller package (pour-over will, financial power of attorney, healthcare documents) charge a national median of $2,700 for that package. DIY document platforms run $149 to $649 and do not vary by state; the national living trust cost guide has the full platform comparison table (LegalZoom, Trust & Will, Quicken WillMaker, FreeWill) with what each one includes.
Attorney figures: LegalTemplates, September 24, 2026.
What a living trust avoids: probate in Nevada
A living trust’s whole point is dodging what comes next: probate. Nevada would run the estate through the court process below, at the court’s own price, unless the assets are already titled in the trust’s name. Nevada charges $72.00 to open probate when the estate is worth more than $2,500, and nothing at all below that line. Full filing-fee breakdown.
Nevada puts probate fees on a statutory percentage schedule, so the largest single cost is anchored to published numbers rather than to an hourly rate: the personal representative’s commission is fixed by statute at 4% of the first $15,000, 3% of the next $85,000 and 2% above $100,000 (NRS 150.020), and the attorney may elect an estate-value schedule starting at 4% of the first $100,000 (NRS 150.060) or bill hourly. The second number is the small-estate threshold, at or under which an estate skips most of probate: $25,000 generally, or $150,000 where the claimant is the surviving spouse, by affidavit of entitlement. Whether any of that reaches a solely owned house is answered below; it is where most published guidance goes wrong. Full Nevada probate cost guide, including the small-estate threshold that can skip probate without a trust at all.
Nevada living trust: signing, notary and the deed
Each line is a short extract quoted from the statute cited; the section has the exceptions.
- Creating the trust. Nev. Rev. Stat. § 163.003: “The settlor properly manifests an intention to create a trust…”
- Deed and notary. Nev. Rev. Stat. § 111.310: “…a certificate of the acknowledgment of any conveyance or other instrument…”
- Certification of trust. Nev. Rev. Stat. § 164.400: “…must be in the form of an affidavit signed and acknowledged…”
For what the court side costs if a trust is not used, see Nevada probate cost.
Funding the trust in Nevada
A signed trust document is not the finish line: assets still have to be retitled into the trust’s name, and for a house that means a new deed. Funding the trust in Nevada costs nothing on the transfer-tax side: NRS §375.090(7) exempts a transfer of title to or from a trust without consideration, as long as a certificate of trust is presented to the recorder. The move does not disturb your property-tax abatement cap either – NRS §361.4723(5)(b) confirms that placing title in a trust for estate-planning purposes does not make an owner-occupant ineligible for the partial (up to 3%) abatement. The new deed still needs to be recorded with the county recorder for a modest per-page fee.
Is a living trust worth it in Nevada?
Weigh the $2,900 against the probate cost above, plus what a dollar figure leaves out: privacy (a trust stays off the public court record) and a faster handoff to whoever inherits. The full worth-it analysis for Nevada works through the trade in detail for what real estate you own.
Sources
- LegalTemplates, 2026 Estate Planning Costs in the US (909 firms, read September 24, 2026).
- Nevada probate filing fee, Nevada probate cost, national living trust cost guide (Clear Money Guide).
- Statute/agency source, transfer-tax/recording source