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A Right of Withdrawal Trust, a.k.a. a Crummey Trust is an irrevocable trust used by parents, grandparents, etc., to make gifts to a trust for their children and grandchildren, taking advantage of their annual gift tax exclusion.
Putting the life insurance policy in the trust can remove it from the grantor's personal assets. As an irrevocable trust, once the life insurance is owned by the trust, you can't take it back.
Crummey Trusts and Crummey Powers Since the beneficiaries do not have to pay any income taxes when they receive the proceeds of the life insurance policy, the Crummey trust allows the transfer of considerable wealth tax-free.
As gifts to ILITs (or trusts generally) do not typically satisfy the present interest requirement, most ILITs will include Crummey powers that allow designated trust beneficiaries to withdraw all or part of the gift to the trust, up to the annual gift tax exclusion amount for each beneficiary, for a specified period of
Even an irrevocable trust can be revoked with a court order. A court may execute an order that permits the dissolution of a life insurance trust if changes in trust or tax laws or in the grantor's family situation make the life insurance trust no longer serve its original purpose.
The buildup of cash value within a policy owned by the trustee of an ILIT is wholly free from income tax. Even more important, the life insurance proceeds ultimately received by the trustee of the ILIT are not subject to the federal income tax.
As the Trustor of a trust, once your trust has become irrevocable, you cannot transfer assets into and out of your trust as you wish. Instead, you will need the permission of each of the beneficiaries in the trust to transfer an asset out of the trust.
Crummey power allows a person to receive a gift that is not eligible for a gift-tax exclusion and then effectively transform the status of that gift into one that is eligible for a gift-tax exclusion. For Crummey power to work, individuals must stipulate that the gift is part of the trust when it is drafted.
A special type of irrevocable life insurance trust, called a Crummey trust (aka irrevocable gift trust), allows a wealthy grantor to fund the trust in such a way that payments are treated as gifts of present interest to the trust's beneficiaries, thereby qualifying for the annual gift exclusion, then using the payments
A Crummey Trust allows you to take advantage of the gift tax exclusions and simultaneously minimize your estate taxes. You do not have to provide an opportunity for the beneficiary to withdraw the entire balance of the trust until a certain age. A Crummey trust can have multiple beneficiaries.