Wasting Trust

Categories: Trusts and Estates

A trust is a legal structure for controlling money. They are usually set up for a specific purpose...retirement account, charity organization, estate distribution, etc.

A wasting trust is one where the money goes out, but nothing comes in. It basically exists as a pile of money, slowly fading away, like a pro athlete's career after 30 (yes, except you, Mr. Brady). Funds get extracted over time, and the total value of the trust diminishes. It wastes away. Eventually, it gets completely depleted...gone for good.

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being like probed in a not a good way Anyway

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fact your will is your will And if you are

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in fact will so living trust is one that lives

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while you do when you die it gets distributed and

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beyond Reducing taxes and giving clarity is the how your

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dearly departed spirit wants its assets distributed A living trust

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can also adjust to your moods Living trust our revokable

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which means you can change your mind and revoke it

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I'ii take it back after you die it becomes irrevocable

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dead and convince a judge to let a lawyer amend

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in the form of bringing them inside your financial tent

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Well the first player is you that is you are

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a separate party in this some party And it is

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you who creates the trust and divines who gets what

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when and how you kaname yourself and potentially your spouse

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as trustees beneficiaries That means that until you die at

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least you are in charge And then your spouse if

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you have one is in charge after you go you

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know kick the bucket The likely successor trustees are your

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kids So yeah the second player is the trustee the

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person in charge of your assets after you die and

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it's their job to be sure that your assets are

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disposed of the way you want him to be Well

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the trusty also deals with conflicts defending the wishes in

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your trust The way that person presumes you'd want them

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Defended nor example you're loving spouse the fifth one the

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one who actually loved you for you all right the

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cars while your assets wend their way through the government

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process he's over years And the will does not have

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to get filed publicly which means that even after you

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are dead you can maintain privacy Generally the more assets

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you have the more important it is to have a

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