With trust and estate planning, one cannot
avoid, totally, the IHT gateway but the liability can be reduced, with professionally devised, in life and death planning. Not a great subject but a necessary one, as you could save your loved ones, 10’s of £1000’s.
We work with level three, highest tier accredited, (full TEP status), Trust & Estate Practitioners and we are able to access for you, a free asset protection plan of action, uniquely tailored to your individual asset holdings; to care for the people most important to you when you’re no longer here to protect them.
Some of the major risks to your wealth.
M.A.D. - Marriage After Death
Your spouse could remarry after your death, your spouse dies and the funds for your childrens’ inheritance could be transferred to a completely different bloodline without the previous allocation
to a trust.
Divorce
Half of your child’s inheritance goes the ex-spouse, if the funds were in a trust, they are ring fenced away from the divorce settlement.
Bankruptcy
Your child’s inheritance in a trust, is protected from bankruptcy loss.
Inheritance Tax Generational IHT can be removed from the funds you allocate to trust. The IHT gateway for the immediate generation below, the IHT liability
cannot be avoided only minimised, but the inheritance you leave in trust which is passed from generation to generation, (after the direct generation below you), is IHT exempt; is our understanding.
Means Tested Benefits Inheritance funds placed in trust, is ring fenced, away from Government benefit income and capital holding calculations; for the physically
and mentally disabled. Long Term Care Costs There are strategies which can remove these cost from your estate.
Legislation is regularly changing, some of the above information may not be accurate anymore but we can introduce you to expert ‘TEP: Level 3’ Trust and Estate practitioners, who will give you a free, asset protection strategy, after assessment of your estate holding;
consistent with today’s UK legislation.
None of the above is legal advice.