Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in California

Visit the county recorder's office in the county in which the property is located and look up the title records for the property to see if there has been a deed recorded granting the property to the trustee as trustee. If the county has their grantor/grantee index on line and you know the name of e settlor of the trust or the trustee, you can search that way.

I agree with Mr. McCormick. You check the grantor/ grantee index at the county recorder's office where the property is located to see if a deed was recorded from the owner to either himself or herself as trustee, or someone else as a trustee of a trust. Don't confuse a deed to a trustee with a deed of trust, which is the security device used to secure loans in California.