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Ultra High Net Worth Estate Planning: The Top 5 Strategies
Giving assets away without giving up access is the puzzle at the center of most ultra-high-net-worth planning. Thomas Kopelman and Lisa Weigel are joined by Chris Nason, head of private wealth at Wealth.com, to walk through the tools that solve it: spousal lifetime access trusts and the surprisingly consequential question of how a document defines "spouse," dynasty trusts in South Dakota and other perpetuity-friendly states, GRATs, and installment sales to grantor trusts. They also cover the divorce and death risks that can lock a grantor out of a SLAT, and how life insurance backstops them…
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