Trusts

Should children inherit at 18, 21 or 25? Compare control, trust duration, administration and the special rules for bereaved minors in England and Wales.

Protect your partner’s right to live at home while preserving your share for family. Understand PLIT ownership, tax, costs and practical choices.

A plain-English pub-story that explains what a trust is and how it maps to a Will.

NRBDTs can still help unmarried couples, remarried families and estates near the RNRB taper threshold. This guide explains the benefits, limits and tax trade-offs.

A Flexible Life Interest Trust (FLIT) helps modern families protect assets across two deaths while keeping control, flexibility and fairness between generations.

A Discretionary Trust helps protect family wealth from risks like divorce, debt and vulnerability while giving trustees flexibility to support beneficiaries over time.

A Vulnerable Person Trust (VPT) protects a vulnerable or disabled loved one’s inheritance, helping preserve benefits while trusted people manage funds for their long-term needs.

A plain-English guide to Property Life Interest Trusts, Life Interest Trusts and Flexible Life Interest Trusts, explaining how they balance protection and flexibility for your family.

How a right-to-occupy trust can give someone a secure home for a time while keeping the property as an inheritance for your chosen beneficiaries.

How a Declaration of Trust records who owns what in a property, protects unequal deposits and family help, and works alongside your Will.

A clear, caution-led guide to Home Protection Trusts (also marketed as Home Protection Plans and Asset Protection Trusts). Explains common sales claims, real risks, and safer Will-based alternatives.

Should you give your house to your children now? Usually not. A practical guide to the real-world risks (care fees, tax, loss of control) and safer alternatives such as Will trusts, including PLITs and FLITs.