Cummins, I appreciate your passion but I gotta say I disagree with your premises and conclusions. I do not know what Utah law provides (Is it a community property state? Some western states are.) but in states with the Uniform Probate Code or the local version of same, probates can be opened five days after death, and the Personal Representative starts giving notice and paying bills and proposing and making distributions. Most probates, around 97% last I heard, never see the inside of a courtroom.
I would bet a steak dinner that trusts generate more legal fees than wills and probates, adjusted for values of course.
