Which trust is required for asset protection, specifically protection from long-term care costs?
A trust can be used to perform many different functions, such as reducing or avoiding tax liability, easing lifetime financial management, protecting assets, preserving family wealth, ensuring continuity of a family business, donating to charities, voiding forced heirship laws, or create a pension scheme for employees or dependents. A properly structured and administered trust may produce substantial savings in income tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax/estate taxes. By establishing a trust, probate delays, expenses, and requirements can be avoided. A trust allows a person to provide for those who may be unable to manage their own affairs such as infant children, the aged, or persons suffering from certain illnesses. Trusts provide flexibility in distributing its assets to beneficiaries according to the terms of the trust document. Rather than distributing shares to heirs, wealth may be retained in one fund and distributed in a specified manner, protecting trust beneficiaries fr
