And the answer is yes, you can transfer a one-half interest in a house into a trust. People often own real estate with other individuals and usually that is a tenancy in common type of ownership.
And what that means is that each of the co-owners owns an undivided one half interest in the real estate. So it’s possible for one of those owners to transfer his or her undivided one half interest in the real estate to a trust that they create.
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