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Family trusts are meant to live beyond the grantor's life. A family trust has an extended lifespan that enables it to distribute assets based on designated milestones (ie., marriage, having children).
v. t. e. Estate planning is the process of anticipating and arranging for the management and disposal of a person's estate during the person's life in preparation for a person's future incapacity or death. The planning includes the bequest of assets to heirs, loved ones, and/or charity, and may include minimizing gift, estate, and generation ...
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.
A dynasty trust is a trust designed to avoid or minimize estate taxes being applied to family wealth with each subsequent generation. [1] By holding assets in trust and making well-defined (or even no) distributions to beneficiaries at each generation, the assets of the trust are not subject to estate, gift or generation-skipping transfer tax (GST) taxes.
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Discretionary trust. In the trust law of England, Australia, Canada, and other common law jurisdictions, a discretionary trust is a trust where the beneficiaries and their entitlements to the trust fund are not fixed, but are determined by the criteria set out in the trust instrument by the settlor. It is sometimes referred to as a family trust ...
A testamentary trust is a legal arrangement created as specified in a person's will, and is occasioned by the death of that person. It is created to address any estate accumulated during that person's lifetime or generated as a result of a postmortem lawsuit, such as a settlement in a survival claim, or the proceeds from a life insurancepolicy ...