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Beneficiary of a Trust
This Beneficiary of a Trust archive brings together articles that help readers understand the moving parts behind stronger planning, from core definitions to more advanced structural…
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Asset Protection
Intentionally Defective Grantor Trust & Family Limited Partnership
Understanding the Confusing but useful Intentionally Defective Grantor Trust (IDGT) IDGTs can be useful in financial planning for those who: want to protect…
Trusts
Intentionally Defective Grantor Trusts to Protect Residence
Using the IDGT (Intentionally Defective Grantor Trusts) to Protect Your Personal Residence. As you know if you've been reading my newsletters for any…
Asset Protection
Asset Protection Trust: Beneficiary Defective Inheritor’s Trust (BDIT)
Beneficiary defective inheritor's trust (BDIT) is an asset protection trust implemented by someone else. About self-settled trust. This is another rung on the…
Asset Protection
Types of Asset Protection & Trusts, Self-Settled Trust, Domestic Asset Protection
Discuss different types of asset protection and trusts in estate planning. Simple trusts, gift-tax exclusion; generation skipping transfer-tax exemptions; transfer-tax system; supercharging trusts with…
Financial Planning
Private Annuity Trust, Ensured Installment Sale (Structured Sale)
Warning: As of October 18, 2006 Private Annuity Trusts (PAT) are no longer recognized by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as legal means for…
Asset Protection
8 Reasons for Choosing Foreign or Offshore Trusts
Why choose a foreign or offshore trust? Eight reasons for taking advantage of foreign or offshore trusts to lower explicit taxation, increase after-tax profit,…
Asset Protection
Domestic and Foreign Trust Differences
Main differences and pros and cons of a domestic onshore trust and the foreign trust such as tax consequences vested with tax jurisdiction under…
Asset Protection
Offshore asset protection (aka Foreign Asset Protection) for Estate Planning
Why offshore asset protection (aka Foreign Asset Protection) is a legitimate business necessity. Discusses 1040 income tax return in regards to offshore reporting and…
Asset Protection
Asset Protection: General/Limited Partnership, Corp Chapter C, Chapter S, LLC, Trusts
Asset protection comparison & definitions of General Partnership, Limited Partnership, Corporation Chapter "C", Corporation Chapter "S", Limited Liability Companies & Revocable Trusts and Irrevocable…
Irrevocable Trust
Advantages of Trust
Advantages of a Trust Trusts are a powerful tax planning tool but they also have many other uses which are of equal if…