Using a Trust as an estate planning tool
25 July 2013
Death eventually knocks on everyone’s door. This certainty necessitates proper estate planning to ensure that when the time comes you... are not anxious as to whether sufficient provision has been made for your loved ones after you are gone. In this article, we briefly explore some of the main benefits as well as concerns in using a trust as a specific tool for your estate planning purposes.
Estate planning is aimed at protecting and preserving one’s assets not only during one’s lifetime, but also thereafter. In order to obtain some of the benefits that are associated with using a trust as an estate planning tool, it is important that the trust is correctly set up and complies with the essential requirements of the Trust Property Control Act.