Legal Question in Wills and Trusts in Michigan

Re: how to protect my estate

You can put the property in your daugther's name by conveying it to her and yourself as joint tenants with rights of survivorship. However, if she is a minor, and you add her to the deed, and then try to refinance, you will have to take her off the deed by opening an estate and getting permission to remove the assets out of her name/estate (I just had this issue with another client).

You can also have a lawyer draft some estate planning documents for you and have the house left to your daughter specifically in a trust so it does not go through probate.