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Trusts

Trusts

Trusts can play an important role in protecting your family and your assets. Trusts can also be confusing.

When a trust is created and funded, a trustee is responsible for preserving or investing its assets, distributing income to beneficiaries, filing tax returns, and other functions essential to the management of the trust’s assets. When the trustee, who is often the creator of the trust as well, dies a successor trustee must be appointed, and must perform certain duties under deadlines in order to avoid tax liability and to protect the validity of the trust.

These responsibilities include making sure that the asset protection trust is properly funded and holds title to its ostensible assets, obtaining property values as of the date of death, preparing an inventory of the trust property, filing fiduciary tax returns, allocating assets to sub-trusts as necessary, making distributions of trust income to beneficiaries, and many other duties.

At Reed Mawhinney & Link we have the experience and familiarity with post-death trust administration issues necessary to make sure that the tax advantages of tax planning trusts are not lost due to administrative mistakes after the grantor’s death.

Our attorneys also have experience in many types of specialized trusts, including:
  • NFA Gun Trusts
  • Florida Land Trusts
  • Special Needs Trusts