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estate planning

estate planning. 1. The preparation for the distribution and management of a person’s estate at death through the use of wills, trusts, insurance policies, and other arrangements, esp. to reduce administration costs and transfer-tax liability. [Cases: Wills 1–20. C.J.S. Conflict of Laws § 72; Wills§§ 1–3, 53–87, 93–95, 97–98, 103–104, 106–132, 172, 174, 381.] 2.

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self settled trust

A trust in which the settlor is also the person who is to receive the benefits from the trust, usu. set up in an attempt to protect the trust assets from creditors. • In most states, such a trust will not protect trust assets from the settlor’s creditors. Restatement (Second) of Trusts § 156 (1959).

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life estate

An estate held only for the duration of a specified person’s life, usu. the possessor’s. • Most life estates — created, for example, by a grant “to Jane for life” — are beneficial interests under trusts, the corpus often being personal property, not real property. — Also termed estate for life; legal life estate; life

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