Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in District of Columbia

Re: Living Revocable Trust

I have reviewed Title 19 (Wills, Trusts

& Estates),Chapter 13 Uniform Trusts Code of the Code of the District of Columbia, and find no specific requirement that revocable trusts have to be necessarily registered "in beneficiary form with a referenced TOD(Transfer on Death)of the property, security, or interest described in the trust, to the named beneficiary. However, apparently, in order to secure the full operational benefits of the statute governing registration of such instruments, the revocable trust should be registered. (The settlor or maker of the trust would appear to have nothing to lose by registering it as the beneficiary can always be changed or the trust revoked prior to the settlor's death, and, it may smooth the transfer of the asset(s) to the named beneficiary after death, if such registration has occurred.)