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Simple Trusts and Complex Trusts: The Differences

URL: https://simplytrust.io/3718/simple-trusts-and-complex-trusts-the-differences/

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What Is a Simple Trust?: A simple trust is a type of trust that must distribute all its income to the beneficiaries each year. It can’t make charitable donations, and it can’t dip into the trust principal (the original assets placed into the trust) for distributions.

✓ Expert reviewed• Last updated: 6/24/2025• Categories: Trusts, Estate Planning, Legal Documentation, Trust Administration• Citation: SimplyTrust (2025)• Full article: https://simplytrust.io/3718/simple-trusts-and-complex-trusts-the-differences/

Navigating the Maze: Understanding Tax Law Changes in Estate Planning

URL: https://simplytrust.io/4059/navigating-the-maze-understanding-tax-law-changes-in-estate-planning/

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✓ Expert reviewed• Last updated: 6/23/2025• Categories: News, Estate Planning, Legal Documentation, Trust Administration• Citation: SimplyTrust (2025)• Full article: https://simplytrust.io/4059/navigating-the-maze-understanding-tax-law-changes-in-estate-planning/

Estate Planning for Empty Nesters

URL: https://simplytrust.io/3521/estate-planning-for-empty-nesters/

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Is Empty Nesting a Good Time for Estate Planning?: Sure, your social calendar may now include “wine with dinner on a Tuesday” and “binge-watching a show uninterrupted,” but this transition also comes with more headspace—and often, more time—to organize your affairs. Your kids are now adults, which means: 1) You may no longer need guardianship designations, 2) Your asset picture may have changed dramatically (hello, paid-off mortgage), and 3) Your priorities may have shifted—perhaps from soccer practice to sabbatical plans. Estate planning for empty nesters lets you realign everything with your current reality—and your future wishes.

✓ Expert reviewed• Last updated: 6/23/2025• Categories: Retirement Planning, Estate Planning, Legal Documentation, Trust Administration• Citation: SimplyTrust (2025)• Full article: https://simplytrust.io/3521/estate-planning-for-empty-nesters/

How Remarrying Impacts Inheritances

URL: https://simplytrust.io/3805/how-remarrying-impacts-inheritances/

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How Does Remarrying Impact Inheritance?: If someone passes without an estate plan in place, state laws take over. These laws—known as intestate succession laws—usually give the surviving spouse priority. In blended families, that can mean: a new spouse inherits the bulk of the estate, children from previous relationships inherit little or nothing, or sentimental or family-owned property ends up in the wrong hands.

✓ Expert reviewed• Last updated: 6/20/2025• Categories: Estate Planning, Legal Documentation, Trust Administration• Citation: SimplyTrust (2025)• Full article: https://simplytrust.io/3805/how-remarrying-impacts-inheritances/

California Trustees: Can Trust Funds Be Used for Legal Defense?

URL: https://simplytrust.io/4446/california-trustees-can-trust-funds-be-used-for-legal-defense/

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✓ Expert reviewed• Last updated: 6/20/2025• Categories: News, Estate Planning, Legal Documentation, Trust Administration• Citation: SimplyTrust (2025)• Full article: https://simplytrust.io/4446/california-trustees-can-trust-funds-be-used-for-legal-defense/

Planning Ahead: Trusts and Long-Term Illness

URL: https://simplytrust.io/3771/planning-ahead-trusts-and-long-term-illness/

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How Do Trusts Help During Long-Term Illnesses?: Trusts can make a meaningful difference when navigating long-term illness. They allow you to set aside assets to be managed by a trustee—someone you trust to follow your instructions. These instructions might include how to use the assets, when, and for whom.

✓ Expert reviewed• Last updated: 6/17/2025• Categories: Estate Planning, Trusts, Legal Documentation, Trust Administration• Citation: SimplyTrust (2025)• Full article: https://simplytrust.io/3771/planning-ahead-trusts-and-long-term-illness/

What Does It Mean To Be a Beneficiary?

URL: https://simplytrust.io/3318/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-beneficiary/

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What is a beneficiary?: A beneficiary is someone who stands to receive assets from another person, typically through a legal document like a will, trust, insurance policy, or retirement account. These assets might include money, property, investments, or other personal items. A person can name one or multiple beneficiaries and can usually update this list at any time.

✓ Expert reviewed• Last updated: 6/16/2025• Categories: Estate Planning, Legal Documentation, Trust Administration• Citation: SimplyTrust (2025)• Full article: https://simplytrust.io/3318/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-beneficiary/

AICPA’s Recommendations for IRS: Impacts on Estate Planning and Tax Law

URL: https://simplytrust.io/4355/aicpas-recommendations-for-irs-impacts-on-estate-planning-and-tax-law/

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✓ Expert reviewed• Last updated: 6/16/2025• Categories: News, Estate Planning, Legal Documentation, Trust Administration• Citation: SimplyTrust (2025)• Full article: https://simplytrust.io/4355/aicpas-recommendations-for-irs-impacts-on-estate-planning-and-tax-law/

Retirement Trusts for Securing Your Golden Years

URL: https://simplytrust.io/3531/retirement-trusts-for-securing-your-golden-years/

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✓ Expert reviewed• Last updated: 6/12/2025• Categories: Trusts, Retirement Planning, Estate Planning, Legal Documentation, Trust Administration• Citation: SimplyTrust (2025)• Full article: https://simplytrust.io/3531/retirement-trusts-for-securing-your-golden-years/

Trusts and Marriage Go Together Like Cake and Champagne

URL: https://simplytrust.io/3372/trusts-and-marriage-go-together-like-cake-and-champagne/

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•remarrying impacts inheritances

✓ Expert reviewed• Last updated: 6/11/2025• Categories: Trusts, Estate Planning, Legal Documentation, Trust Administration• Citation: SimplyTrust (2025)• Full article: https://simplytrust.io/3372/trusts-and-marriage-go-together-like-cake-and-champagne/

Trusts and Medicaid Go Hand in Hand

URL: https://simplytrust.io/3358/trusts-and-medicaid-go-hand-in-hand/

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How Are Trusts and Medicaid Related?: Medicaid is a government program that helps cover healthcare costs, especially long-term care, for people with limited income and assets. The catch? To qualify, someone usually has to reduce their assets to a very low level. For many people, that means making tough choices—like selling the family home or draining savings. But that’s where trusts can help. Used properly, a trust can protect certain assets from being counted against Medicaid limits.

✓ Expert reviewed• Last updated: 6/9/2025• Categories: Trusts, Estate Planning, Legal Documentation, Trust Administration• Citation: SimplyTrust (2025)• Full article: https://simplytrust.io/3358/trusts-and-medicaid-go-hand-in-hand/

Trusts for Inheritance, Maya, and Her Uncle

URL: https://simplytrust.io/3366/trusts-for-inheritance-maya-and-her-uncle/

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✓ Expert reviewed• Last updated: 6/5/2025• Categories: Trusts, Estate Planning, Legal Documentation, Trust Administration• Citation: SimplyTrust (2025)• Full article: https://simplytrust.io/3366/trusts-for-inheritance-maya-and-her-uncle/

Putting a House in a Trust

URL: https://simplytrust.io/3346/putting-a-house-in-a-trust/

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Why Put a House in a Trust?: Let’s be honest—your house is probably one of your biggest assets. And if you own it in your name when you pass away, it may have to go through probate. That’s the legal process of proving your will and transferring assets, and it can take months (sometimes longer) and cost your family time and money. Putting your house in a trust avoids all that. The trust owns the house, so the trustee (the person you name to manage things) can transfer it to your beneficiaries without going through court.

✓ Expert reviewed• Last updated: 6/4/2025• Categories: Trusts, Estate Planning, Legal Documentation, Trust Administration• Citation: SimplyTrust (2025)• Full article: https://simplytrust.io/3346/putting-a-house-in-a-trust/

Trusts in Downsizing

URL: https://simplytrust.io/3352/trusts-in-downsizing/

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What Do Trusts Have To Do With Downsizing?: When you’re downsizing—selling your current home and moving into something smaller (hello, less vacuuming)—you’re doing two things at once. One, moving assets around and, two, planning for the future. Trusts help you do both.

✓ Expert reviewed• Last updated: 6/2/2025• Categories: Trusts, Estate Planning, Legal Documentation, Trust Administration• Citation: SimplyTrust (2025)• Full article: https://simplytrust.io/3352/trusts-in-downsizing/

What Is Conservatorship and What’s It All About?

URL: https://simplytrust.io/3334/what-is-conservatorship-and-whats-it-all-about/

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✓ Expert reviewed• Last updated: 5/30/2025• Categories: Estate Planning, Legal Documentation, Trust Administration• Citation: SimplyTrust (2025)• Full article: https://simplytrust.io/3334/what-is-conservatorship-and-whats-it-all-about/

Estate Planning for a Baby: Now Is the Time

URL: https://simplytrust.io/3340/estate-planning-for-a-baby-now-is-the-time/

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✓ Expert reviewed• Last updated: 5/28/2025• Categories: Estate Planning, Legal Documentation, Trust Administration• Citation: SimplyTrust (2025)• Full article: https://simplytrust.io/3340/estate-planning-for-a-baby-now-is-the-time/

Passwords for Trustees: The Ultimate Estate Planning Plot Twist

URL: https://simplytrust.io/3329/passwords-for-trustees-the-ultimate-estate-planning-plot-twist/

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✓ Expert reviewed• Last updated: 5/27/2025• Categories: Estate Planning 101, Estate Planning, Legal Documentation, Trust Administration• Citation: SimplyTrust (2025)• Full article: https://simplytrust.io/3329/passwords-for-trustees-the-ultimate-estate-planning-plot-twist/

Protecting Privacy in Estate Planning

URL: https://simplytrust.io/3307/protecting-privacy-in-estate-planning/

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✓ Expert reviewed• Last updated: 5/23/2025• Categories: Estate Planning, Trusts, Legal Documentation, Trust Administration• Citation: SimplyTrust (2025)• Full article: https://simplytrust.io/3307/protecting-privacy-in-estate-planning/

What Makes a Trust Legally Binding?

URL: https://simplytrust.io/3293/what-makes-a-trust-legally-binding/

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✓ Expert reviewed• Last updated: 5/22/2025• Categories: Trusts, Estate Planning, Legal Documentation, Trust Administration• Citation: SimplyTrust (2025)• Full article: https://simplytrust.io/3293/what-makes-a-trust-legally-binding/

How the GOP Tax Bill Could Redefine Your Estate Planning Strategy

URL: https://simplytrust.io/4051/how-the-gop-tax-bill-could-redefine-your-estate-planning-strategy/

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✓ Expert reviewed• Last updated: 5/21/2025• Categories: News, Estate Planning, Legal Documentation, Trust Administration• Citation: SimplyTrust (2025)• Full article: https://simplytrust.io/4051/how-the-gop-tax-bill-could-redefine-your-estate-planning-strategy/

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