Trusts and estates are the two main legal structures for transferring assets to your heirs and beneficiaries. Each works in ...

Trusts serve a variety of tax, asset protection and estate planning purposes for families, and over the years different types of trusts have evolved to best serve families’ planning needs and ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

"The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry," wrote poet Robert Burns. That may be no truer than in estate planning. With the great wealth transfer underway, people – even the rich, famous and ...

As an estate planning tool, the generation-skipping trust can offer investors some tax advantages and other perks. For the family that uses it, this can be a way to have the third generation inherit a ...