excluding beneficiaries

Trusts: Making well-documented inquiries

Robert Lindley and Wesley O’Brien provide a step-by-step guide to dealing with missing or uncooperative beneficiaries It will be important for the trustee to be capable of demonstrating that it has made sufficient reasonable efforts to find and/or contact the relevant person. Trusts exist for the benefit of their beneficiaries and it is to beneficiaries …

Continue reading "Trusts: Making well-documented inquiries"

This post is only available to members.

Fiduciary powers: Stocktaking

Stephen Alexander explores when it is possible to exclude a beneficiary under a discretionary trust Typically, if a beneficiary is excluded from a class by way of exercise of a power of exclusion, he or she can take no further interest under the settlement. A power to exclude a beneficiary is a fiduciary power which, …

Continue reading "Fiduciary powers: Stocktaking"

This post is only available to members.