How Do I Open a Trust Account at First National Bank?
Yes. First National Bank opens deposit accounts in the name of a revocable living trust. First National Bank's trust account requirements: how an account is opened or retitled to a revocable living trust, the documents to bring, and what the successor trustee needs after a death.
Opening a trust account at First National Bank
Opening or retitling
- In a branch
- Not stated
- Online
- Not stated
- By phone
- Not stated
- By mail
- Not stated
- Appointment
- Not stated
- Co-trustees
- Not stated
- Existing account
- Not stated
- What proves the trust
- Not stated
- Certification form
- Not stated
What it costs
- Opening deposit
- Not stated for trust accounts. FNB publishes minimum opening balances per product on the product pages, not on the fee schedule (Freestyle Checking: $50 Minimum Opening Balance (Online); $0 Minimum Opening Balance (In-Branch))
- Monthly fee
- Not stated for trust accounts. Freestyle Checking carries no monthly service charge; Lifestyle Checking $10.00, Premierstyle Checking $25.00, eStyle Account $5.00, FirstRate Savings $5.00 and FirstRate Money Market $10.00 per statement cycle
- Fee waived at
- Not stated for trust accounts. Lifestyle Checking: $1,000 or more per day average daily balance OR $10,000 or more combined average daily balance; Premierstyle Checking: $7,500 or more per day daily balance OR $25,000 or more combined minimum daily balance; FirstRate Savings: average daily balance of $500 or more; FirstRate Money Market: average daily balance of $5,000 or more
- Other waivers
- Not stated for trust accounts. No waiver, exclusion or age rule on the Consumer Fee Schedule names a trust, trustee or fiduciary account
- Schedule that applies
- FNB Consumer Fee Schedule (Effective May 4, 2026; Rev. 05/04/2026) -- the Deposit Account Agreement lists Trust Account among its Consumer Account Types and applies the Consumer Fee Schedule to Consumer Accounts
- Other charges
- Dormant Account Fee $10.00 per month, assessed after 24 consecutive months of inactivity (eStyle Account no charge); Early Account Closing $50.00 per account if the account is closed within 180 days of opening (eStyle Account, FirstRate Savings, IRA Savings and Private Banking Select Plus Checking no charge); Paper Statement Fee $3.95 per statement cycle on Freestyle Checking, Employee Checking, Student Checking, HSA and WorkPlace First Checking, $2.00 per statement cycle on the eStyle Account; Check Images Fee $3.00 per statement cycle in addition to the paper statement fee; Hold Mail Fee $10.00 per statement cycle
- For trust accounts
- Nothing. The Consumer Fee Schedule names no trust account, trust product, trustee or fiduciary ("trust" x1 -- the First National Trust Company investment-balance waiver route on Private Banking Select Plus Checking; "fiduciar" 0; control "checking" x44), and the Business Fee Schedule has "trust" 0. The Deposit Account Agreement's only fee sentences reaching a trust account are the account-universal dormancy and early-closing rules.
| Account | To open | Monthly fee | Waiver or condition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Freestyle Checking | $50 Minimum Opening Balance (Online); $0 Minimum Opening Balance (In-Branch) | No monthly service charge | No minimum balance requirement; the $3.95 paper statement fee is avoided with online statements |
| Lifestyle Checking | $10.00 | $1,000 or more per day average daily balance OR $10,000 or more combined average daily balance, for the preceding month, in any combination of checking, savings, certificate of deposit, IRA, money market accounts or consumer loan balances; service charge reduced to $9.00 with online statements | |
| Premierstyle Checking | $25.00 | $7,500 or more per day daily balance OR $25,000 or more combined minimum daily balance, for the preceding month, in any combination of checking, savings, certificate of deposits, IRA, money market accounts or consumer loan balances | |
| eStyle Account | $5.00 | Make at least ONE (1) deposit OR FIVE (5) customer-initiated transactions during the statement cycle | |
| FirstRate Savings | $5.00 | Average daily balance of $500 or more | |
| FirstRate Money Market | $10.00 | Average daily balance of $5,000 or more |
Who can open it
- Existing customer
- Not stated
Documents to bring
First National Bank publishes no document list for trust accounts.
Once it is open
- Online banking
- Not stated
- Checks
- Not stated
- Debit card
- Not stated
What to know at First National Bank
FNB's only published statement about a deposit account owned by a living trust is one clause of its Deposit Account Agreement (November 3, 2025), which lists "Trust Account" among the Consumer Account Types, defines it as owned by a trust created by a written trust agreement, and makes the trustees named in that agreement the Signers on the account. No page on fnb-online.com describes how to open or retitle such an account: FNB names no channel, no appointment rule, no document list, no proof-of-trust standard, no certification-of-trust form, no taxpayer-number rule, no co-trustee rule and no post-opening feature for a trust account. The agreement's general rule that changing account ownership requires a new signature card is not trust-scoped. Because a trust account is a consumer account type, the Consumer Fee Schedule governs it; that schedule names no trust product and no trust-scoped fee, waiver or exclusion, so the account's cost is whichever consumer product it is opened as. The account-universal charges an inactive trust account is exposed to are the $10.00 monthly Dormant Account Fee after 24 consecutive months of inactivity and the $50.00 Early Account Closing fee within 180 days of opening. The Knowledge Center articles that discuss living trusts and successor trustees (Trust Basics, Bypassing Probate, Wills: The Cornerstone of Your Estate Plan) are prepared by Broadridge Investor Communication Solutions and carry FNB's disclaimer that it does not warrant their adequacy, accuracy or completeness; they are education, not FNB procedure. The Private Family Wealth trust and fiduciary pages describe First National Trust Company acting as corporate trustee, not a deposit account. FNB publishes no successor-trustee or deceased-customer deposit procedure, so no successor limb is recorded.
This guide summarizes each bank's published trust-account requirements and is not legal or banking advice. Requirements may vary by state and account type.
Frequently Asked Questions
First National Bank's published guidance does not state where a trust account is opened.
First National Bank publishes no document list for trust accounts.
First National Bank does not state which taxpayer number a revocable trust account is opened under.
A trust account is a deposit account titled in the name of a trust rather than a person — for a revocable living trust, typically "[Trustee name], Trustee of the [Trust name]". While the grantor is alive and serving as trustee, the account is the grantor's to use; the trust title is what keeps the funds out of probate and lets the successor trustee take over without a court appointment.
A trust account holds assets that were titled to a trust before death, and the successor trustee takes control of it under the trust document. An estate account is opened after death by the court-appointed executor or administrator, under the estate's own EIN, for assets that were not in a trust and pass through probate. A family with a funded revocable trust may need only the trust account; a family with a will, or no will, opens an estate account.
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