How Much Does It Cost to Set Up a Miller Trust in Ohio?
An elder-law attorney typically charges $1,000–$2,500 to set up a Miller Trust in Ohio — in practice, a few hours of paperwork using ODM's own free template and one trip to the bank. This $97 kit covers that same process yourself: the template walkthrough, the bank-refusal script, and the 7 ODM denial traps to avoid. For complex estates, an attorney is worth the fee regardless — this kit does not draft the trust or advise on your specific situation.
What an attorney typically charges
An elder-law attorney typically charges $1,000–$2,500 to set up a Miller Trust in Ohio — work that is, in practice, filling in Ohio Department of Medicaid's own free template and opening one bank account.
What the $97 kit covers instead
This kit covers the same template walkthrough, the bank-refusal script, and the 7 ODM denial traps to avoid — the parts of the process most families handle themselves.
When the attorney's fee is worth it anyway: significant assets, prior gifting, a second marriage, or multi-state property. Those are fact-specific questions this kit does not answer — for them, consult an Ohio-licensed elder-law attorney regardless of which route you take on the trust itself.
The trust's money and the kit's price are separate
An Ohio Miller Trust holds only the applicant's income and pays only for the applicant's own care — it is never used to pay this kit's price or an attorney's fee. Whatever you spend to set the trust up happens outside the trust.
One cost this comparison doesn't include
A wasted bank trip costs you a day you don't get back. Free one-pager: the questions to ask before you drive to a branch, emailed now. Then 4 more short emails over 3 weeks on what else trips families up — then we stop.