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Letting Go of the Dead Hand: Part II

With silent trusts, all might not be quiet on the western front.

This article is the second in a series considering the downsides of trustor’s dead hand control in trust planning. In the first article, we addressed the challenges and limitations of traditional trust planning.1 We’ll now address the downsides of the relatively new phenomenon colloquially referred to as “silent trusts” or “quiet trusts.”  

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