Some assets are more than investments. They are companies, songs, intellectual property, buildings, brands, royalties, partnerships, creative catalogs, and life’s work.
Business & Creative Trusts are designed to protect, organize, transfer, and preserve the things people spend decades building. This category is especially important for entrepreneurs, founders, artists, musicians, creators, real estate owners, and family business operators.
Traditional estate planning often focuses on "Who gets the money?" But business and creative planning asks a more complicated question: "What happens to the thing itself?"
What happens to the company? The catalog? The partnership? The studio? The real estate portfolio? The royalties? The brand identity? The voting rights? The family business?
Without planning, businesses and creative assets can quickly become fragmented, mismanaged, litigated, or destroyed by conflict. This category blends legacy, succession, protection, governance, and continuity. It is where estate planning intersects with identity and life’s work.
Business Succession Trust
What Happens to the Business?
A Business Succession Trust is a trust designed to help preserve, manage, and transition ownership or control of a business after death, incapacity, retirement, or other major life events.
Read the One-Sheet →V.2Intellectual Property Trust
Protecting Ideas
An Intellectual Property Trust is a trust designed to hold and manage valuable intangible assets such as copyrights, trademarks, patents, licensing rights, brand assets, creative works, and royalty streams.
Read the One-Sheet →V.3Music Catalog Trust
Protecting the Art After the Artist
A Music Catalog Trust is a trust structure designed to manage and preserve music-related assets such as publishing rights, master recordings, royalties, licensing income, and intellectual property connected to musical works.
Read the One-Sheet →V.4Real Estate Holding Trust
Keeping Property Intact
A Real Estate Holding Trust is a trust designed to hold and manage real estate assets for liability protection, succession planning, privacy, or long-term family ownership.
Read the One-Sheet →V.5LLC + Trust Structures
Layered Protection
An LLC + Trust Structure combines business entities and trust planning to create layered ownership, liability protection, succession planning, and long-term asset management structures.
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At Hurwitz.Law, we believe that thoughtful planning begins with a meaningful conversation.
We offer a private, 30-minute consultation—by phone or Zoom—for individuals and families considering estate planning, elder law, or trust administration services. This conversation allows us to understand your goals, answer your questions, and help determine whether our firm is the right fit for your needs.
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