This Complex Will with Credit Shelter Trust for Large Estates form is a complex Will designed to enable a couple to maximize the amount of property that can pass free of estate taxes. The will leaves the maximum tax free amount allowed (i.e. 1,000,000.00 as of 2001) to a trust and the remainder of property to the surviving spouse. All of the property passing to the spouse is estate tax free. Therefore, no estate taxes are due at the death of the first spouse. Since the trust has 1 million dollars that can pass to the children tax free, the surviving spouse can also leave 1 million to a similar trust or children and thereby enable 2 million dollars instead of 1 to pass to the children estate tax free. Income from the trust can be disbursed to the surviving spouse and children.
Long Beach California Complex Will with Credit Shelter Marital Trust for Large Estates
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The primary benefit of CSTs is that the surviving spouse can use the trust's principal and income during the remainder of their lifetime, for example, for medical or educational expenses. The remaining assets then pass to the beneficiaries and are not subject to estate taxes.
Credit Shelter Trust vs Marital Trust - Is a Marital Trust the Same as a Credit Shelter Trust? No. A Marital Trust is a type of Credit Shelter Trust. You and your spouse can use a Marital Trust to pass assets to a surviving spouse, children or grandchildren.
Trusts are established to provide legal protection for the trustor's assets, to make sure those assets are distributed according to the wishes of the trustor, and to save time, reduce paperwork and, in some cases, avoid or reduce inheritance or estate taxes.
Yes, the surviving spouse may serve as trustee of the credit shelter trust. If the spouse serves as the sole trustee he or she must be restricted to using income and principal for needs related to health, education, support and maintenance.
A marital trust allows the couple's heirs to avoid probate and take less of a hit from estate taxes by taking full advantage of the unlimited marital deduction?a provision that enables spouses to pass assets to each other without tax consequences.
The four main types are living, testamentary, revocable and irrevocable trusts.
A credit shelter trust (CST) is a trust created after the death of the first spouse in a married couple. Assets placed in the trust are generally held apart from the estate of the surviving spouse, so they may pass tax-free to the remaining beneficiaries at the death of the surviving spouse.
The current federal estate tax exemption is $11.7 million. This means individuals can gift up to the federal exemption amount during their lifetime or after death without incurring a federal? the ?death? and ?lifetime gift? tax is combined.
