A charitable trust holds assets and distributes them to charities. When you establish the trust you can specify how it will manage and invest its assets, as well as how it will make donations. There ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Ebony Howard is a certified public accountant and a QuickBooks ProAdvisor tax expert. She ...

It is not unusual for a tax adviser to suggest that a client involved in estate tax planning leave some assets to a char­ity. Clients who would like to see their charitable endeavors perpetuated are ...

Why consider looking for forms on the Web? Trusts and estates practitioners all have (or should have) carefully crafted office forms and drafting systems and a library full of form books and forms ...