A living trust is a legal arrangement that allows you to pass on assets to the beneficiaries you designate. You're able to ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial ...

A living trust is a legal arrangement in which you control your assets as long as you're alive. A major benefit to a living trust is avoiding probate. Depending on the assets you have, you may not ...

A living trust is a legal arrangement that allows you to pass assets on to other people. It's similar to a will in that regard, but with one key difference. The benefit of a living trust is that ...

Trusts also allow you to put restrictions on how money is spent. Payable on death accounts don’t allow restrictions.

Tens of millions of older Americans will see an increase in benefits in January when a new cost-of-living adjustment is added ...

The benefits of a Revocable Trust are three-fold. Firstly, assuming that the Revocable Trust is properly funded with all of a person’s assets, a Revocable Trust helps avoid a state’s probate ...

Millions of retirees who receive Social Security benefits will see a 2.5% cost-of-living increase to their monthly checks ...