Estate of Heggstad

In Estate of Heggstad (1993) 16 Cal.App.4th 943, decedent created a revocable living trust naming himself as trustee. The declaration of trust had a schedule of assets listing some real property (a residence) with an address. (Id., at p. 946.) Decedent, however, never executed a deed conveying the real property to the trust. The Court of Appeal held that the declaration of trust and schedule sufficed because it contained a description of the real property. (Id., at pp. 948-950.) "A written declaration of trust by the owner of real property, in which he names himself trustee, is sufficient to create a trust in that property, and . . . the law does not require a separate deed transferring the real property to the trust." (Id., at p. 950.)