We have formed hundreds of trusts over the years and I pride myself on the care that goes into the drafting of a trust deed. Why, then, is my own family trust non-discretionary, when all of those that we have prepared for clients are discretionary? To answer that we need to first ask “Why should a trust be discretionary during the founder’s lifetime?”. As I explained in my recent article “Discretionary and non-discretionary trusts“, it is commonly believed that only a discretionary trust protects the trust assets from the founder’s creditors. I take a slightly modified view,…
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