Choosing a Trustee: Why It’s Risky to Pick Uncle Bill
Understand why choosing a trustee like your uncle may be risky. Discover the importance of selecting a professional trustee for your trust.
Read article Trust Administration
Meaningful Ways to Honor a Loved One Through Your Estate Plan
Incorporate meaningful ways to honor a loved one in your estate plan, reflecting their values and interests in lasting gifts.
Read article
Beware of Trust Scams: How to Identify and Avoid Them
Trusts are valuable tools in estate planning, helping individuals protect and transfer assets, sometimes in a tax-efficient manner. However, the complexity of certain trusts—often involving multiple parties, specialized legal terms, and nuanced tax regulations—can make them difficult for the average person to fully understand.
Read article
Successor Trustee Mistakes That Can Undermine Your Final Wishes
Choosing the right successor trustee is one of the most important decisions you will make when creating a trust. Your successor trustee will be responsible for managing your trust’s assets when you are no longer able to do so, whether due to incapacity or death. Selecting the wrong person can undermine your carefully laid plans and lead to family conflict, financial mismanagement, and even legal disputes.
Read article
Estate Planning Simplified: Wills, Trusts, and Intestacy Explained
Discover the importance of estate planning. Premier Legacy Law of Denver, CO outlines what happens if you pass away with or without a will.
Read article
What Can I Not Do as Trustor and Trustee of a Revocable Living Trust?
Before setting up a revocable living trust, you should understand what you can—and cannot—do in your dual role as trustor and trustee.
Read article How to Choose a Trustee
When you establish a trust, you name someone to be the trustee. A trustee does what you do right now with your financial affairs—collect income, pay bills and taxes, save and invest for the future, buy and sell property, provide for your loved ones, keep accurate records, and generally keep things organized and in good order.
Read article Five Mistakes Successor Trustees Make (and How to Prevent Them)
When establishing a trust, you must give serious thought to who you choose as your successor trustee—the person who will manage, invest, and hand out the trust’s accounts and property once you are no longer able to do so. Even the most capable, well-intentioned successor trustees can make mistakes when managing affairs, however. Here are five surprisingly common mistakes along with steps to take to prevent them from happening.
Read article
3 Examples of When an Irrevocable Trust Can—and Should—Be Modified
Irrevocable trusts can be modified through a court order. Many people share the misconception that the name implies absolute permanence. Yet, changes in laws, family, trustees, or financial circumstances can warrant alterations. Errors in the trust document may also arise, prompting a need for modifications, even in irrevocable trusts.
Read article
5 Good Reasons to Decant a Trust
Trust decanting provisions are important to allow flexibility when dealing with irrevocable trusts. Some estate plans contain irrevocable trusts for the benefit of a spouse or other family members that may need some changes to ensure the plan still meets beneficiaries’ needs.
Read article