When planning your estate, what costs more, a will or a trust? Since a Trust Attorney can prepare an average will for $400 to $500 and set up an average trust for about $2,000 to $2,500. If your attorney draws up a will for you, it may cost $400. However, upon your death, your estate goes through the probate process.The fees for settling your estate could easily reach $10,000 (the average cost of probate). Now the total cost of settling your estate isn’t $400—it’s a whopping $10,400. Remember that the average trust costs $2,000 to $2,500 to set up, but there’s no probate. Remember, of all lega
