Steven and Tamara McGlynn recorded four warranty deeds on the same day last week, transferring a cluster of Lewis and Clark County properties into the McGlynn Family Living Trust — a move that consolidates holdings spread across East Helena and other Helena-area subdivisions under a single estate-planning vehicle.
The four deeds, all recorded May 27, cover properties in four distinct subdivisions: a lot in the East Helena Townsite Corrected (Lot 10, Block 1), a parcel in Pine Hills Estates (Lot 24), two adjacent lots in the Northern Pacific Addition (Lots 2 and 3, Block 65), and a lot in the original East Helena Townsite (Lot 10, Block 9). All four transactions were recorded in Book M65, pages 4240 through 4243, suggesting they were filed together as a package.
Public records show the McGlynns have a deeper footprint in the county than this week's filings alone suggest. Their names appear across 12 filings tied to six distinct properties in Lewis and Clark County recorder records, spanning both real estate deed filings and capital flow records. The same-day transfer of four parcels into a trust is consistent with estate planning or asset protection strategies, though the county recorder's records reflect only the legal transfer itself — no consideration amounts are listed in trust transfers of this type.
For neighbors and anyone tracking East Helena property activity, the practical effect is straightforward: the McGlynns remain the beneficial owners of these properties, but title now rests with the family trust. Such transfers don't change how the land is used or taxed, but they do show up in title searches — and they're a reminder that the recorder's office is one of the more useful windows into how longtime Helena-area property owners are structuring what they've built.