Andrew Bloomenthal has 20+ years of editorial experience as a financial journalist and as a financial services marketing writer. Ebony Howard is a certified public accountant and a QuickBooks ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about charitable giving and estate planning ideas. Many taxpayers created irrevocable trusts and transferred significant ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

To minimize taxes, protect assets and give you and your beneficiaries greater control, eight states stand above the rest when it comes to trust laws.

A deferred sales trust (DST) is an advanced tax strategy that allows investors to delay capital gains taxes on the sale of assets that have significantly risen in value, such as real estate or ...

As an estate planning tool, the generation-skipping trust can offer investors some tax advantages and other perks. For the family that uses it, this can be a way to have the third generation inherit a ...