Professional Trustee Service

Discretionary Lifetime Trusts offer great flexibility and control for a trustee, with opportunities to potentially save on tax. During your lifetime you retain an element of control, guiding your trustee when there’s an opportunity to help someone who you want to benefit from your wealth. This type of trust requires financial planning and advice.

If you have benefited under someone’s Will or Estate in the last two years, you may want to take advantage of immediate Inheritance Tax savings by passing the funds directly from the person who has died into a trust, using a Deed of Variation. For example, you could use this type of trust to benefit you, your spouse, civil partner, partner or child in your lifetime and continue to benefit them after your own death. This type of trust requires financial planning and advice.

There are different scenarios that may lead to us becoming your trustee. You can appoint us as a new trustee of an existing trust that is managed by others. You may also ask us to become a trustee if a trust is created by a Will and the appointed trustee has died or does not wish to act, or because someone has died without leaving a Will in place. This type of trust does not require Financial Advice.

You can make additional trust arrangements that will only come into effect after you die, by including a specific clause in your Will. The flexibility exists to plan for changes in family circumstances, and you can guide your trustee by writing a ‘Letter of Wishes’ (which is kept with your Will). This letter can be amended by you as many times as you wish, but should be reviewed whenever you update your Will. This type of trust does not require Financial Advice.

This type of trust is set up to benefit the cause or causes you wish to support – now and into the future. These are subject to potential tax concessions. This type of trust does not require Financial Advice.