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No need to put this in a revocable trust. Simply name your beneficiaries within the policy. Or, create an irrevocable life insurance trust (ILIT) to avoid estate taxes.
Charitable trusts, like other trusts, are administered by trustees, but there is no direct relationship between the trustees and the beneficiaries. [4] This results in two key points: first, the trustees of a charitable trust have greater freedom to act than other trustees, and secondly, beneficiaries cannot take legal action against the trustees.
The term "incentive trust" is sometimes used to distinguish trusts that provide fixed conditions for access to trust funds from discretionary trusts that leave such decisions up to the trustee. Inter vivos trust (or 'living trust'): A settlor who is living at the time the trust is established creates an inter vivos trust.
When you hear the word "trust" in financial or business terms, you probably think of either Teddy Roosevelt or rich kids who drive Range Rovers in high school. The truth, however, is that trusts...
[a] With the exception of charitable trusts, and some specific anomalous non-charitable purpose trusts, all trusts are required to have ascertainable beneficiaries. Generally speaking, there are no strictures as to who may be a beneficiary of a trust; a beneficiary can be a minor, or under a mental disability (in fact many trusts are created ...
However, a revocable trust can provide language to create sub-trusts upon the death of a grantor (e.g. credit shelter or other irrevocable trusts) that can preserve or reduce future estate tax ...
A purpose trust is a type of trust which has no beneficiaries, but instead exists for advancing some non-charitable purpose of some kind. In most jurisdictions, such trusts are not enforceable outside of certain limited and anomalous exceptions, but some countries have enacted legislation specifically to promote the use of non-charitable purpose trusts.
A trust can turn non-taxed accounts into taxable ones. But you can make the trust itself the beneficiary so that these accounts pass directly to your trustees without some IRS agent crashing the wake.