Protection for Your Loved Ones
- Guardian Designation: Name guardians for your minor children.
- Pet Care Planning: Name pet caretakers and set aside funds to provide for their lifelong care.
- Homestead Protection: Safeguards your home when transferred into your trust.
- Financial Advisor Guidance: Directs heirs to your trusted advisor after your passing.
- Trustee Compensation Language: Clarifies how your trustee is paid for their work.
Flexibility for Married Couples
- Disclaimer Trusts are included for all married couples, with the option to split assets at the first death.
- AB Trusts & QTIP Trusts are available for couples seeking additional tax planning or asset protection strategies.
Personalized Distribution Options
- Leave specific gifts or family heirlooms to loved ones.
- Delay distributions in cases of addiction, gambling, or creditor issues.
- Convert a beneficiary’s share to a Special Needs Trust if appropriate.
- No-Contest Clause discourages disputes by removing shares from challengers.
Tax & Retirement Account Benefits
- IRA Pass-Through Language: Gives your trustee flexibility with inherited IRA assets.
- Federal & State Tax Elections: May minimize or eliminate estate taxes.
- QDOT Language: Protects non-U.S. citizen spouses from unnecessary estate taxes.
Built-In Safeguards
- Catastrophic Event Protection: Covers “common disaster” scenarios.
- Qualified Subchapter S Corporate (QSST) Language: Protects business interests.
Optional Enhancements
- Restatement of an existing trust
- Alternate names (AKAs) for assets
- Separate trusts for each spouse
- Right of occupancy for blended families
- Divorce & creditor protection provisions