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Estate Planning >> Trusts & Living Trusts >> auto debt in a trust
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| Event: auto debt in a trust | - |
Terry (Offline)
UNITED STATES |
| Joined 23 Sep 2021 8:45 am
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| Category: | Personal |
| Start: | 22 Sep 2021 6:50 am |
| End: | 24 Sep 2021 10:00 am |
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| If the trustor owes money do the trustees inherit his debt in a living trust? Specifically, an auto with more owed on it than it is worth? |
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| Joined 26 Jan 2022 1:01 pm
144 posts
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| Joined 26 Jan 2022 1:01 pm
144 posts
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Re: Terry's question
Dear Terry:
You probably wanted to ask whether a Grantor, if he is also a Trustee under a Revocable Living Trust, is liable for the debts of the trust.
It needs to be said that the assets of a Revocable Living Trust are not protected from the grantor’s creditors during the grantor’s lifetime or after the grantor’s death.
After death of the Grantor (Settlor of the trust) the Living Trust becomes irrevocable.
To protect beneficiaries of the trust, many states adopted “spendthrift provision” to the trusts. Spendthrift provision does not allow beneficiary’s creditors to reach the beneficiary’s interest in a spendthrift trust. On the other hand, if the beneficiary has the power to withdraw trust principal, for example at a specific age, those assets could be subject to creditor claims when the specified age is reached, absent other specific provisions of the trust which could permit a trustee to defer or delay asset distribution.
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