Family trust

You want to protect your family when you're healthy, ill, or ultimately gone. A living revocable trust does that. So what is a trust, and how does it work?

A comprehensive guide on how revocable living trusts / inter vivos trusts / family trusts work and how to set one up.

Trusts are essential to many estate plans, but few people understand them well enough.

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Learn the Difference between a Will, a Revocable Trust and an Irrevocable Trust. Download our free guide to learn if a Will, Revocable Trust or Irrevocable Trust is best for you.

Trusts are used to manage estate taxes, shelter assets from creditors and pass on wealth to future generations.

Trust funds are becoming more common. Learn how a trust fund can benefit you and your family and how to set one up.

Revocable living trusts won’t protect assets from nursing homes because they are under the control of the owner. Here's what you can do instead.

A Revocable Living Trust is a document that allows you to place assets or property into a trust so they can seamlessly transfer to your beneficiaries after you pass away. Trusts are legal entities that hold assets for beneficiaries to inherit eventually. As its name suggests, you can amend or revoke the terms of a Revocable Living Trust at any time.

When most people hear “trust fund,” they think of wealthy people living in fancy estates. But that isn’t always the case. Trust funds are helpful for estates of varying sizes. But before you set one up, it’s best to understand what it is and what it can and can’t do.