When estate planning, it is critical to know who is the grantor of a trust, as it can significantly impact financial planning and estate strategy. As the individual who establishes a trust ...

Halfpoint Images / Getty Images An Intentionally Defective Grantor Trust (IDGT) is an estate planning tool designed to help individuals manage the tax treatment of certain assets. The IDGT allows ...

The current Congress is mulling making major changes to grantor trust rules. These changes would likely make future grantor trusts have little or no estate or gift tax value. But most everyone ...

the trust maker should set up a trust with “grantor” provisions so that the trust maker will continue paying taxes at the trust maker’s lower tax rates. The fact is that most people would ...

Investopedia / Mira Norian A grantor retained annuity trust (GRAT) is an estate planning tool used to minimize taxes on large financial gifts made to family members. It can avoid using much (if ...

Putting your home in a trust simply means transferring ownership of your home into a trust you have created with a trust ...