Another form of transfer that works similarly is granting a life estate. Been around a long time. You buy the property and allow the person to live there. When they die you get it. An attractive option for some people. But not the majority of people.
My dementia Mother was secretly talked-into a “life estate deed” by my brother who worked with a sneaky-lawyer who was my Moms neighbor. (He knew Mom had been adjudged incapable of making decisions two years earlier but our brother had hired him to get-around the will.)
Basically… brother gets the house when Mom dies… despite the will she and Dad had made years previously which gave the estate (and house) equally to all 3 of us.
When I found out… My sister and I retained a lawyer who pointed out that Mom’s “life-estate deed” could only give the crooked brother the house…IF she still owned the house at her death.
So my sister and I (we were Moms’ executor and standby-executor) SOLD the house before Moms’ death. (Sneaky Brother cannot inherit a house Mom doesn’t own at her death.)
The money went into the estate which was equally shared by all of us as Mom and Dad had planned years earlier in their will.
Brother and his Filipino wife (who had convinced him to pull the stunt) didn’t get what they thought they’d get… in fact….in anticipation of their sneaky windfall…they’d spent a ton of money they didn’t get after-all… and are now deep in debt. My sis and I have disowned them.