The Trust Collection
A curated guide to modern trust planning.
Our culture often assumes trusts are only created by and for the wealthy. In reality, most trusts are simply tools — quiet, intentional, and human — that help families avoid chaos, protect what they love, and pass down more than money.
The collection is organized into eight categories. Browse them like rooms in a house. Each contains a small set of trusts, an explanation in plain language, and the deeper question that trust is really trying to answer.
Foundation Trusts
The Core Structures
Foundation Trusts are the starting point for modern estate planning. Not because they are "fancy" — but because they create order, protect loved ones, plan for incapacity, and keep families out of court when life gets hard.
Explore 5 trusts →Category IIProtection Trusts
Protecting the House
Some trusts aren’t designed to move wealth — they’re designed to protect it. From lawsuits, creditors, divorce, addiction, business risk, and sometimes family conflict itself.
Explore 5 trusts →Category IIICare & Support Trusts
Planning with Compassion
The trusts in this category get built for a different reason than most. Care, mostly. Protection and support around aging, disability, illness, or addiction — for the family member who needs that planning to actually hold up over time.
Explore 5 trusts →Category IVLegacy Trusts
Multi-Generational Thinking
Legacy Trusts are built around a different question. Not "what happens when I die," but "what happens to the family over time."
Explore 5 trusts →Category VBusiness & Creative Trusts
Protecting What You Built
Some assets aren’t really investments — they’re life’s work. A company. A catalog. A real estate portfolio. A patent, a brand, a partnership, a creative library.
Explore 5 trusts →Category VICharitable & Purpose Trusts
Giving with Intention
Some trusts aren’t built to preserve wealth. They’re built to direct it.
Explore 5 trusts →Category VIIModern Family Trusts
Planning for Real Life
Estate planning is no longer husband, wife, two kids, one house, one simple inheritance — if it ever was.
Explore 5 trusts →Category VIIIEsoteric & Advanced Trusts
The Deep End
The structures in this category are the ones most people have never heard of — and that sophisticated families and their advisors quietly use.
Explore 6 trusts →In yoga, foundation matters.
In trust planning, foundation matters too.
Trusts are about structure, clarity, protection, intention, and reducing chaos. The right trust is rarely the most exotic one — it is the one that fits the life around it.
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