Getting the Best of Both Worlds from an Irrevocable Trust
Getty Images The seeming finality of an irrevocable trust can sound scary to a lot of people. The whole idea that you are tying up large pools of your assets in a trust, and then giving control of that trust to someone else just doesn’t sit well with them. However, irrevocable trusts have a little more leeway to retain some control than you might realize. Before we get into the details, we should talk about the two different types of trusts: revocable and irrevocable. The revocable trust, or living trust, is an agreement between the client (commonly called the settlor, grantor or trustor in...
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