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Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust
An irrevocable life insurance trust (ILIT) is a trust created to own life insurance. By establishing an ILIT, an insured can shelter death benefits from estate taxes and minimize, if not completely eliminate, federal gift tax.

Blended Families
Blended families—ones in which the husband and/or wife bring children and assets from a previous relationship—outnumber traditional families in the United States. When doing estate planning, clients who are part of a blended family must take particular care to avoid potential conflicts between a current spouse, ex-spouse, and children.

Bypass Trust
A Bypass Trust minimizes estate tax liability and preserves wealth by allowing each spouse to take full advantage of the federal estate tax exemption. However, the appeal of this arrangement is not only the estate tax savings, but also the flexibility that it offers the surviving spouse.

Dynasty Trust
A Dynasty Trust, also known as a legacy or generation-skipping trust, is designed to allow its creator to pass wealth from generation to generation without the burden of transfer taxes, including estate, gift and the generation skipping transfer tax (GSTT) on subsequent generations. Not just for the ultra-wealthy, its trust terms can be tailored to promote positive behavior in beneficiaries by requiring that they adhere to certain standards in order to be entitled to trust distributions.

Family Limited Partnership
A Family Limited Partnership (FLP) is a conventional limited partnership with at least one general partner and one limited partner. FLPs are created primarily to shift ownership of assets, and sometimes income, to family members, offering a number of benefits such as estate and gift tax advantages, over other forms of ownership.

Foreign Nationals
Non-U.S. citizens—or citizens with a non-U.S. citizen spouse—fall within a different set of rules under current estate tax law. They can face a significant estate tax liability that may be even larger than what they would incur if both spouses were U.S. citizens. Failure by these individuals to properly plan for U.S. transfer taxes may cause them to pay unnecessarily high gift and/or estate taxes.

Highly Appreciated Assets
Many high net-worth individuals need to develop an advanced estate plan that will employ sophisticated strategies to reduce their potential transfer tax liability and/or provide a means of liquidity for their loved ones to pay any taxes that may be due. One way to reduce potential estate taxes is to reduce the size of the taxable estate itself. This can be accomplished using estate freeze strategies such as qualified personal residence trusts; grantor retained annuity trusts; installment sales to intentionally defective irrevocable trusts; and private annuities.

Special Needs Trust
A Special Needs Trust can help clients with disabled family members achieve vital estate planning and financial goals. With proper legal and financial planning, the family can help assure that the person with the disability will enjoy a comfortable lifestyle, while preserving his or her eligibility for government-sponsored programs.

Spousal Support Trusts
A Spousal Support Trust is an ILIT created by one spouse, the grantor spouse, for the benefit of the other spouse, the uninsured spouse. When structured properly, it gives clients “the best of both worlds”—access to cash values and a federal estate tax-free death benefit.

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