The Trust Collection
A curated guide to modern trust planning.
Most people assume trusts are exotic instruments built for billionaires. 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. These are the structures most families encounter first — not because they are "fancy," but because they create order, clarity, and continuity during some of life’s most difficult moments.
Explore 5 trusts →Category IIProtection Trusts
Protecting the House
Some trusts are designed not simply to transfer wealth — but to protect it. From lawsuits, creditors, divorce, taxes, poor decisions, addiction, financial predators, business risk, and sometimes even family conflict itself.
Explore 5 trusts →Category IIICare & Support Trusts
Planning with Compassion
Some trusts are not primarily about wealth. They are about care.
Explore 5 trusts →Category IVLegacy Trusts
Multi-Generational Thinking
Legacy Trusts are built around a different kind of 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 are more than investments. They are companies, songs, intellectual property, buildings, brands, royalties, partnerships, creative catalogs, and life’s work.
Explore 5 trusts →Category VICharitable & Purpose Trusts
Giving with Intention
Some trusts are not designed primarily to preserve wealth. They are designed to direct it toward meaning.
Explore 5 trusts →Category VIIModern Family Trusts
Planning for Real Life
Families are complicated. Modern estate planning is no longer just husband, wife, two children, one house, one simple inheritance.
Explore 5 trusts →Category VIIIEsoteric & Advanced Trusts
The Deep End
This is where trust planning becomes highly strategic, highly customized, intellectually fascinating, and occasionally a little mysterious.
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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