Life insurance trust meaning

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Overview of the use of life insurance in estate planning Life insurance—also called life assurance—often plays a significant role in estate planning. This Practice Note outlines the principal policy types offered in the market, examines how they can support an estate plan, and reviews the key tax implications. A central difficulty in many estates is finding cash to settle the inheritance tax (IHT) that arises on death where no spousal exemption is available and the estate is made up, to a meaningful degree, of hard‑to‑realise assets. These can include land, shares in a business that may fail to attract business property relief, and chattels, for example works of art that fall outside the conditional exemption regime. Although IHT instalment property relief can, for illiquid assets, allow the liability to be spread over ten years with interest charged, the obligation to pay IHT remains, and releasing sufficient liquid funds can be problematic. Life insurance can, on death, provide immediate liquidity to meet the IHT liability...

Many Wills are relatively straightforward, often providing, for instance, that after debts are settled the estate is left outright to a spouse or to children, sometimes with additional specific legacies. In cases like these, no ongoing trust remains once the estate has been administered, so there is usually little justification for conferring powers on trustees beyond those conferred by the Trustee Act 2000 (TrA 2000) and other statutes (although it is not always possible to know in advance whether a trust will arise). At times, however, a continuing trust is the better fit, such as where beneficiaries are under age. A familiar Will trust pattern is a primary gift to the surviving spouse, with the estate instead passing to surviving issue if the spouse fails to outlive the testator, either straightaway or once a specified age is reached. Where the children are minors, or have not yet attained the age at which the gift is to vest absolutely, trust provisions are needed so that the assets are managed properly. The...

This trust is executed on [ date ] Parties [ settlor ] of [ address ] (the Settlor); and [ original trustees ] of [ addresses ] (the Original Trustees) Background The Settlor holds absolute title to the life insurance policy (the Policy), the details of which are set out in Schedule 1. The Settlor intends to transfer the Policy to the Original Trustees, to be held by them upon the following trusts...

To [ insurance company ] We, [ solicitors ] of [ address ], acting as solicitors for [ assignor ], hereby notify you that, by a deed of assignment and declaration of trust dated [ date ] (the Life Insurance Trust) made between (1) [ assignor ] (the Assignor) and (2) [ trustees ] (the Trustees), the Assignor has transferred to the Trustees the benefit of the insurance policy detailed in the Schedule below, to be held by the Trustees in accordance with the trusts set out in the Life Insurance Trust. [ signature of solicitors ] Dated [ date ] The Schedule Issuing Society Policy Number Sum Assured Annual Premium ...