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A benefactor (from Latin bene 'good' and factor 'maker') is a person who gives some form of help to benefit a person, group or organization (the beneficiary), often gifting a monetary contribution in the form of an endowment to help a cause.
A beneficiary in the broadest sense is a natural person or other legal entity who receives money or other benefits from a benefactor. For example, the beneficiary of a life insurance policy is the person who receives the payment of the amount of insurance after the death of the insured. In trust law, beneficiaries are also known as cestui que use.
In trust law, a beneficiary (also known by the Law French terms cestui que use and cestui que trust), is the person or persons who are entitled to the benefit of any trust arrangement. A beneficiary will normally be a natural person , but it is perfectly possible to have a company as the beneficiary of a trust, and this often happens in ...
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A third-party beneficiary, in the civil law of contracts, is a person who may have the right to sue on a contract, despite not having originally been an active party to the contract. This right, known as a ius quaesitum tertio , [ 1 ] arises when the third party ( tertius or alteri ) is the intended beneficiary of the contract, as opposed to a ...
4. Take the tax break if you’re entitled to it. An inherited IRA may be taxable, depending on the type. If you inherit a Roth IRA, you’re free of taxes.
Fiduciary duties in a financial sense exist to ensure that those who manage other people's money act in their beneficiaries' interests, rather than serving their own interests. A fiduciary duty [5] is the highest standard of care in equity or law.
Using the same scenario with three beneficiaries (A, B and C) set to receive a $300,000 death benefit, if beneficiary C dies, the death benefit would now be split equally between the two remaining ...