Sometimes, when your lawyer is discussing your estate planning goals, he or she will suggest that you should create a trust as one of your estate planning tools.
A trust is a separate legal entity apart from you that reflects your intent about the distribution of your property in the trust.
There are many different types of trusts. This document will discuss only the common types of trusts that we draft in this office
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