{"id":400,"date":"2022-05-09T13:47:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T13:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advisor.wellington-altus.ca\/mpwealthadvisory\/?p=400"},"modified":"2022-05-09T13:47:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T13:47:51","slug":"estate-planning-using-trusts-not-just-for-the-ultra-wealthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/advisor.wellington-altus.ca\/mpwealthadvisory\/2022\/05\/09\/estate-planning-using-trusts-not-just-for-the-ultra-wealthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Estate Planning Using Trusts: Not Just for the Ultra Wealthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you review your estate plan, have you considered the use of a trust? Trusts are often seen as a tool used by the ultra wealthy. Yet, there may be benefits for individuals with more modest wealth positions that justify the associated costs, which can generally run in the thousands of dollars for legal fees in order to set up, as well as additional costs for maintenance.<sup>1<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>While trusts can be created during an individual\u2019s lifetime (known as inter-vivos trusts) and can offer many benefits for wealth planning, the focus of this discussion is on estate planning using testamentary trusts, which are generally established under your will. After death, certain assets would be transferred to the testamentary trust according to the directions specified within your will, to be managed by a trustee on behalf of a beneficiary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/advisor.wellington-altus.ca\/mpwealthadvisory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2022\/05\/MPWA-Estate-Planning-Article-May-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to read the full article.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you review your estate plan, have you considered the use of a trust? Trusts are often seen as a tool used by the ultra wealthy. Yet, there may be benefits for individuals with more modest wealth positions that justify the associated costs, which can generally run in the thousands of dollars for legal fees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/advisor.wellington-altus.ca\/mpwealthadvisory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/advisor.wellington-altus.ca\/mpwealthadvisory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/advisor.wellington-altus.ca\/mpwealthadvisory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advisor.wellington-altus.ca\/mpwealthadvisory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advisor.wellington-altus.ca\/mpwealthadvisory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/advisor.wellington-altus.ca\/mpwealthadvisory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/advisor.wellington-altus.ca\/mpwealthadvisory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/advisor.wellington-altus.ca\/mpwealthadvisory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advisor.wellington-altus.ca\/mpwealthadvisory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advisor.wellington-altus.ca\/mpwealthadvisory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}