When planning your estate, you should understand different trust options available, such as testamentary trusts and living trusts. A testamentary trust is created through a will and only becomes ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Trusts are integral to wealth, tax, and estate planning, allowing individuals to control when and how assets are distributed to intended beneficiaries, both during one’s lifetime – via an inter vivos ...

One cannot handle the disposition of one's estate from the grave, but one can determine who will handle that disposition. The two basic ways to do so are by wills or trusts. The larger and more ...