A Bypass Trust, or as it is sometimes called, a “Credit Shelter Trust,” Family Trust or “B Trust,” is an Irrevocable Trust designed to hold an amount that can be sheltered from death taxes.
The Bypass Trust not only preserves the deceased person’s death tax credit, but it also shelters the assets from the surviving spouse’s creditors and future spouses. The Bypass Trust can also be crafted to ensure that the assets pass to the deceased spouse’s children or family at the surviving spouse’s death, keeping them out of the hands of the surviving spouse’s subsequent spouse.
Here are some questions clients, beneficiaries, and Trustees ask:
The Bypass Trust is funded with assets that use the deceased’s estate tax and generation tax exemption. This means that when the surviving spouse dies, the exemption shelters the trust assets from tax. Further, if the trust uses Dynasty Trusts, this same protection is passed down the bloodline.
Tax shelter and asset protection.
Yes, limited only by legal obligations you may have to your spouse.
No, they are often called “Family Trusts” because the spouse and children can be beneficiaries.
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