If you don't make a plan for what happens when you die, Tennessee makes one for your Nolensville family. It's called probate. A revocable living trust is the other plan.
Without a trust, a Nolensville estate goes to the Williamson County Chancery Court in Franklin, where a probate attorney, court costs and a public file come standard and the law requires at least four months for creditors before anything closes. Most Nolensville houses were bought in the last fifteen years, with a mortgage and a 401(k) alongside, and none of that is a plan. A revocable living trust is: it holds the house and the accounts, so what you own passes to the people you chose with no case opened.
It costs nothing. You leave knowing what you need and what it costs, in writing.
Revocable living trusts · Wills · Powers of attorney · Nolensville, Tennessee
Vanderpool Law writes the plan with you now, in plain English, so your Nolensville family inherits a set of instructions instead of a court date. The first conversation is thirty minutes, costs nothing, and carries no obligation.
In short: A Nolensville estate goes to the Chancery Court in Franklin, or to the Davidson County Probate Court if the house is on the Davidson side of the 37135 ZIP, because neither county has a separate probate court for a house in one name. A funded revocable living trust passes the house to your family with no court case. Vanderpool Law in Franklin, twenty minutes down Nolensville Road, draws the plan and records the deed into the trust, for one flat fee quoted in writing after thirty minutes that cost nothing.
Nolensville at a glance
- County
- Williamson County, but the 37135 ZIP also reaches into Davidson County
- Probate
- Williamson County Chancery Court in Franklin; Davidson County Probate Court for the Davidson side
- Register of Deeds
- Sherry Anderson, Williamson County Register, 1320 West Main St., Franklin
- Transfer tax
- 37 cents per $100; the deed into your own revocable trust is exempt
- Median sale price
- $929,385 in August 2026
- Population
- 15,789, Census estimate July 1, 2025
- Deed into your trust
- Exempt from the state transfer tax; recorded by Vanderpool Law.
A living trust for a Nolensville family
A Nolensville family's estate is usually probated in the county where the person lived, so the county line matters here too. On the Williamson County side there is no separate probate court: wills are probated and estates administered in Chancery Court, through the Clerk and Master in the Judicial Center in Franklin. A house titled in a trust can stay out of that process altogether.
Almost everything in Nolensville was built in the last twenty years, and the families in it are young. Bent Creek went up between 2005 and about 2020, Ballenger Farms from 2004 to 2012, Catalina in six phases through 2019, Scales Farmstead from 2017 to 2023. The people who bought those houses are the ones who have not yet written down the thing that matters most: who gets the house, which in one name alone goes to court. The house is worth planning for; the typical Nolensville sale is now over $900,000. And a Burkitt Village address with a Nolensville ZIP is usually on the Davidson County side of the line, which puts the estate in a different courthouse. We look the parcel up before we draw anything.
Vanderpool Law is in Franklin, about twenty minutes down Nolensville Road or Concord Road to the office on Seaboard Lane. The first conversation is thirty minutes, by phone or in person, and costs nothing. Bring the deed and the name you have in mind for trustee; most Nolensville plans turn on that name more than on the documents. You leave with a plain-English summary and a fee in writing, before you decide anything. If the price is the thing standing in the way, say so: for a family going through a rough time, in certain situations, there is a trust scholarship.
Questions Nolensville families ask about trusts
The questions Google shows for living trust searches in Williamson County, answered here for Nolensville, where the question under all of them is usually the children. The full answer is one click away on each.
How much does it cost to set up a living trust in Tennessee?
For a Nolensville family it is the trust, the pour-over will, both powers of attorney and the deed into the trust, drawn together for one flat fee quoted in writing after a thirty-minute conversation that costs nothing. We do not print a number because a plan for one house is not the same work as a plan for a house, a business and a brokerage account. Nothing is added later.
Full answer: How much a living trust costs in Tennessee →
Is it better to have a will or a trust in Tennessee?
With a $900,000 house in Bent Creek or Scales Farmstead in one name, the trust: a will sends that house to the Chancery Court in Franklin, and the family is left with a house nobody can sell for the better part of a year. The pour-over will still comes along, as the backstop. Together they are the plan; apart, each leaves a hole.
Full answer: Living trust in Tennessee: do you need one? →
Can I put my house in a trust in Tennessee?
Yes, by a deed from you to yourselves as trustees, recorded at the Williamson County Register in Franklin, or at the Davidson County Register if the parcel is on the Burkitt side of the line. Your association dues and your mortgage are untouched; federal law keeps the lender from calling the loan over a transfer into your own revocable trust. The transfer is exempt from the state transfer tax, and we record it ourselves.
Full answer: Funding the trust: the step people skip →
Who makes decisions for me if I can't?
Whoever you name in a durable power of attorney for money and a healthcare power of attorney for medical care, both part of the package. For a young couple this feels theoretical until one of them is in a hospital bed and the other cannot refinance the house or move a retirement account. Name nobody and the answer is a conservatorship petition at the Chancery Court in Franklin.
Full answer: Durable power of attorney in Tennessee, and why so many get refused →
What happens to my retirement accounts and life insurance?
They follow the beneficiary form, not the will or the trust. For a Nolensville family with young children, the life insurance is often the largest thing in the estate after the house, and a policy that names a six-year-old pays into a court-supervised account until she is eighteen. Naming the trust instead lets the person you chose manage it for her. We check every form with you.
Full answer: No estate plan? Tennessee has one for you →
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This page is general information about living trusts and estate planning for Nolensville, Tennessee, not legal advice, and no attorney-client relationship exists until an engagement letter is signed. Probate in Sumner County and the other Tennessee counties is in the court the county assigns it to; recording is at that county's Register of Deeds. Figures are as of the date shown and change.