A trust can keep life insurance out of your estate, protect government benefits and give you more control over how the money ...

Steps to make sure your life insurance pays out efficiently to the people you want to support Written By Written by Insurance Staff Writer, WSJ | Buy Side Kimberly Lankford is an insurance staff ...

Editor's note: This is the first article in a series about financial and/or estate planning issues that we all should know but might be too embarrassed to ask about. First up: life insurance trusts.

The strategic use of life insurance helps equalize inheritances, provide immediate liquidity for tax bills and more Written By Written by Insurance Staff Writer, WSJ | Buy Side Kimberly Lankford is an ...

Should you name your living trust as the beneficiary of your life insurance policy? Is it better to name specific individuals as direct beneficiaries? This decision can have significant implications ...

Many people (and even some seasoned financial advisors) believe that you can simply gift your existing life insurance policy to your irrevocable life insurance trust (ILIT) without any implications.

I've written before about the individual power of tools like deferred sales trusts, asset protection trusts, limited ...