Legal articles focusing on Trusts Estates Law |
| Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust |
| The irrevocable life insurance trust (ILIT) provides an accessible means of producing estate-tax-free dollars that is without equal in terms of the potential savings measured against what the grantor has to give up in return. |
| Special Needs Trusts |
| A special needs trust- sometimes called a "supplemental needs trust" makes it possible to appoint a trustee to hold property for the benefit of your disabled child after you'e gone. A special needs trust provides for the needs of a disabled person without disqualifying him or her from benefits recei |
| Trusts for Minors |
| A trust can help make sure that your family is taken care of after you die. A "minor's trust" not only helps to make sure that your child has some assets in the future, but also gives you certain tax benefits. But, this trust has several requirements that must be met in order for it to work for you. |
| Modifying or Terminating a Trust |
| A trust can do a lot for you, like lowering estate taxes or helping to make sure that your family can support itself after you die. Anyone involved with a trust needs to know some things about whether the trust can be changed or cancelled, and by whom, and when the trust ends. |
| Pet Trusts |
| If you're worried about what might happen to your much-loved pet after your death, it's possible to create a pet trust to provide for the continuing care and well-being of a particular animal or animals. Pet trusts are now legal in some form in Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Missouri, Montan |