Credit Shelter Trust

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A trust customarily designed to receive the maximum amount which can pass free of federal estate tax upon the death of the first of two spouses to die. It has numerous variations. Frequently the terms of the trust provide that all of its income will be payable to the surviving spouse for life, with the assets then passing to or in trust for one or more others upon the surviving spouse’s death.

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