When enterprises distribute documents electronically, it is often important that recipients can verify three important aspects of a document: Integrity: That the content has not been altered ...

Drafting Wills and Trust Agreements (DWTA) version 9.0 (manufactured by Michael L.M. Jordan at Thomson Reuters) is a software program designed for the assembly of wills, revocable trusts and other ...

A certificate of trust verifies your trust for financial institutions without exposing private details. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who ...

When trusts are used as estate planning tools, financial institutions such as banks and brokerages may require written documentation of the trust’s existence before transferring assets into a trust or ...

It is common for settlors to execute trust documents that contain exculpatory clauses. An exculpatory clause is one that forgives the trustee for some action or inaction. For example, a common ...

Trust documents can use the term “spouse” to identify a class of beneficiaries or actors who are related to another class of beneficiaries—usually the grantor’s descendants. If one of the grantor’s ...