How Much Does a Living Trust Cost in New Hampshire?
An attorney-prepared revocable living trust in New Hampshire runs $3,360Clio Legal Trends Report 2025Verified Jul 1, 2026View source to $5,040Clio Legal Trends Report 2025Verified Jul 1, 2026View source for an individual, against $0 to $549 up front plus a subscription with an online service.
Frequently Asked Questions
A revocable living trust in New Hampshire costs what the provider charges. An online service runs $0 to $549 up front plus a subscription. An attorney in New Hampshire charges around $336Clio Legal Trends Report 2025Verified Jul 1, 2026View source an hour for trust work, which puts an attorney-prepared trust at $3,360Clio Legal Trends Report 2025Verified Jul 1, 2026View source to $5,040Clio Legal Trends Report 2025Verified Jul 1, 2026View source for an individual plan.
Yes. Assets titled to a revocable living trust pass outside probate in New Hampshire: the beneficiaries receive them without a court case, a public record or the probate timeline. Probate on a $500,000 estate in New Hampshire costs about $26,585NH Circuit Court Probate Division Rule 88 (reasonable compensation for work, responsibility, and risk; no statutory percentage)Verified Sep 8, 2026View source in court and professional fees. The New Hampshire probate calculator estimates the fees for a given estate.
An online trust service costs $0 to $549 up front against $3,360Clio Legal Trends Report 2025Verified Jul 1, 2026View source to $5,040Clio Legal Trends Report 2025Verified Jul 1, 2026View source for an attorney in New Hampshire. The lifetime figure turns on the subscription, the amendment charges and how often life events require an update.
Only what was never transferred into the trust. The common oversights are a bank account, a vehicle or real estate left in the grantor's own name. A pour-over will catches those assets and directs them into the trust through probate; funding the trust in life is what avoids that step.
Most online trust services charge a subscription of $49 to $199 a year, which may cover document access, minor amendments or an attorney consultation. An attorney amendment in New Hampshire costs $336Clio Legal Trends Report 2025Verified Jul 1, 2026View source to $672Clio Legal Trends Report 2025Verified Jul 1, 2026View source for a simple change and $1,344Clio Legal Trends Report 2025Verified Jul 1, 2026View source to $2,688Clio Legal Trends Report 2025Verified Jul 1, 2026View source for a major update such as a divorce or a remarriage.
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Learn moreForms for Planning Your Estate in New Hampshire
Free forms for planning your estate in New Hampshire: a will, living trust, pour-over will, both powers of attorney, living will, and TOD deed.
Pour-Over Will
In New Hampshire, a pour-over will is signed before 2NH RSA 551:2Verified Sep 16, 2026View source witnesses and moves anything left outside the trust into it through probate.
Revocable Living Trust
Create a revocable living trust to avoid probate, protect privacy, and control asset distribution.
Last Will and Testament
In New Hampshire, a will is signed before 2NH RSA 551:2Verified Sep 16, 2026View source witnesses, and a self-proving affidavit signed with it lets the court admit it without witness testimonyNH RSA 551:2Verified Sep 16, 2026View source.
Healthcare Power of Attorney
New Hampshire allows a choice for a healthcare power of attorney: 2RSA 137-J:20Verified Jul 15, 2026View source witnesses or a notary.
Financial Power of Attorney
New Hampshire treats a power of attorney as durable by defaultRSA 564-E:104, 564-E:105, 564-E:106, 564-E:107, 564-E:109, 564-E:113, 564-E:114, 564-E:119, 564-E:120, 564-E:201, 564-E:217, 564-E:301; RSA 477:9Verified Sep 18, 2026View source, and it is signed before a notaryRSA 564-E:104, 564-E:105, 564-E:106, 564-E:107, 564-E:109, 564-E:113, 564-E:114, 564-E:119, 564-E:120, 564-E:201, 564-E:217, 564-E:301; RSA 477:9Verified Sep 18, 2026View source.
Transfer on Death Deed
In New Hampshire, a transfer on death deed is signed before a notaryRSA 563-D:1 to 563-D:22Verified Aug 24, 2026, then recorded with the county before the owner's deathRSA 563-D:1 to 563-D:22Verified Aug 24, 2026, within 60 daysRSA 563-D:1 to 563-D:22Verified Aug 24, 2026 of signing.
Living Will
In New Hampshire, the living will is the Living WillRSA Chapter 137-J (137-J:1 to 137-J:37), Written Directives for Medical Decision Making for Adults Without Capacity to Make Health Care DecisionsVerified Sep 27, 2026View source, a written instruction that is valid with no agent named.
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Do I Need a Revocable Trust?
Probate in New Hampshire takes 6 months to 9 months for a simple estate and charges attorney fees of typically 2%NH Circuit Court Probate Division Rule 88 (reasonable compensation for work, responsibility, and risk; no statutory percentage)Verified Sep 8, 2026View source to 3.2%NH Circuit Court Probate Division Rule 88 (reasonable compensation for work, responsibility, and risk; no statutory percentage)Verified Sep 8, 2026View source of the estate; assets held in a revocable trust skip both.
Trust or Will: Which Costs Less?
In New Hampshire, a will-based plan pays probate attorney fees of typically 2%NH Circuit Court Probate Division Rule 88 (reasonable compensation for work, responsibility, and risk; no statutory percentage)Verified Sep 8, 2026View source to 3.2%NH Circuit Court Probate Division Rule 88 (reasonable compensation for work, responsibility, and risk; no statutory percentage)Verified Sep 8, 2026View source of the estate; a funded revocable trust keeps those assets out of probate and off that fee.
What Does Estate Planning Actually Cost?
An attorney-prepared revocable trust in New Hampshire runs $3,360Clio Legal Trends Report 2025Verified Jul 1, 2026View source to $5,040Clio Legal Trends Report 2025Verified Jul 1, 2026View source and a simple will $1,080Clio Legal Trends Report 2025Verified Jul 1, 2026View source to $2,160Clio Legal Trends Report 2025Verified Jul 1, 2026View source, against $0 to $549 up front plus a subscription with an online service.
How Much Life Insurance Do I Need?
In New Hampshire, four years at a public university cost about $120,152NCES Digest of Education Statistics 2023, Table 330.20, public 4-year in-state tuition, fees, room and board, academic year 2022-23Verified Oct 3, 2026View source and the cost of living is near the U.S. averageBEA Regional Price Parities, all items, by state, 2024Verified Oct 3, 2026View source; no state estate or inheritance tax appliesNo state estate or inheritance tax. The inheritance tax (RSA Ch. 86, Legacy & Succession Tax) was repealed outright for deaths on or after 1/1/2003 ("Repealed 2002, 232:14, II, eff. Jan. 1, 2003."). The estate tax (RSA Ch. 87) remains codified but is void by its own terms: RSA 87:9 ("Chapter Void, When.") provides that "[t]his chapter shall become void and of no effect in respect to the estates of persons who die subsequent to the effective date of the repeal of ... that portion of such provisions that allow a credit for state death taxes against the decedent’s federal estate tax." The IRC § 2011 credit was terminated for decedents dying after 12/31/2004 (replaced by the § 2058 deduction, Pub. L. 107-16 § 532(d)) and § 2011 was formally repealed by Pub. L. 113-295 (Dec. 19, 2014), so no New Hampshire estate tax is due for deaths on or after 1/1/2005.Verified Sep 15, 2026View source.
Are My Beneficiary Designations Protected?
New Hampshire does not revoke an ex-spouse as beneficiary at divorceRSA 551:13; RSA 563-D:14Verified Sep 15, 2026View source; employer plans under ERISA follow federal rules either way, so a 401(k) beneficiary changes only by a new designation.
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