Two factors are converging to cause certain clients to consider creating family banks in 2012. The first is the phenomenal success of estate-freezing gift strategies (primarily, grantor retained annuity trusts and sales to intentionally defective grantor trusts) that were put in place during the early months of 2009. The success of those strategies has caused a shift of assets to children from parents that has far exceeded expectations and, in many cases, has left parents satisfied that their children are provided for in all events. The second is the ability to make direct, simple gifts of up to $5 million per donor, free of gift and generation-skipping (GST) taxes, for the remainder of this year. Many of those clients who believe th...
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