Two Important Types of Estate Planning Trusts

Two Important Types of Estate Planning Trusts

When it comes to estate planning, trusts are an excellent way to protect your family from drawn-out court proceedings and expensive probate hearings. We’re going to look at two of those options, and how they may be able to add a level of protection to your estate plan.

Revocable Living Trust

A revocable living trust is a great way to leave your estate to your beneficiaries without having it go through probate. You can even serve as the trustee while you are still alive and control what goes into the estate personally. Then you can appoint a successor trustee to distribute things to the right heirs at the right time. Some people even decide to make the revocable living trust the beneficiary of their life insurance policy. That makes it payable to the trust beneficiaries and no one else.

Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust

This type of trust helps you to administer the benefits of one or more life insurance policies for your beneficiaries. It provides tax benefits and protects the insurance money from creditors. You can also fund the trust with other assets besides just your insurance policies. Those assets can be used to pay the insurance premiums.

Planning for Your Estate in California

If you have an estate to leave to beneficiaries in California, even if it is primarily your life insurance policy, you can still benefit from the professional advice of the estate planning attorneys at the Petrov Law Firm. To get started, give our San Diego office a call at 619-344-0360.