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A solution for the care of individuals with special

Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2025 11:00 am
by sumaiyakhatun26
Tax benefit: A Malta trust or foundation may be set up to make use of compliant avenues to minimise estate taxes, defer taxable events to a later date or shift tax burdens onto beneficiaries with more favourable tax impositions.

Succession planning: a trust and foundation can generate a greater degree of privacy and flexibility than may be possible with a will alone. Trusts and foundations can be used to avoid the separation of family estates and to prevent disputes between heirs.
Spendthrift beneficiaries: trusts and foundations can be created to prevent reckless heirs from spending family wealth on the death of their parents, by limiting their interest to income or to capital (at least until they reach a certain age, or until they fulfil certain requirements). Trusts and foundations can be drafted in such a way that a beneficiary is ‘excluded’, if they are, for example, declared bankrupt.

Needs and minors: a trust and foundation can be used to make special provisions for new zealand mobile database beneficiaries who will be unable to care for themselves on the death of the settlor/founder, and in situations where it may be appropriate that one heir should benefit more on the death of the settlor/founder, as they require a greater amount of care, with its associated costs.

Lifestyle planning: partners who are not married, or whose family arrangements are not straight-forward may find that some countries’ legal systems do not provide adequate solutions on their death or separation. In such cases a specifically drafted trust or foundation can be used to ensure that partners, and children of such partners, are treated as the settlor or founder intends.