The usual reasons for establishing a family trust include:

• To try to achieve protection of some assets from creditors, where you are personally undertaking a risky business venture, in case it fails.
• To ensure that some assets, such as a family business or a farm, are transferred intact to the next generation.
• To make sure that some assets are retained for other family members, when one or more members needs rest home or hospital care.
• To protect family members or a family business from possible relationship breakdown, or from a contested will claim.
• To manage the assets of someone who is unable to manage his or her own affairs, whether through a disability or illness.
• To simplify estate administration by transferring assets to a trust before death.
• To change tax liability.

The trustees are the legal owners of the trust property and can do the same sorts of things with the trust property that any owner can do. They can hold property, raise mortgages, open and operate bank accounts and generally hold all types of assets and investments, as long as they operate according to the powers set out in the trust deed.

You can make a trust using the LawOnline system in just five minutes, if you know exactly what you want to provide and don't need any advice. Realistically, you should expect it to take about 10 minutes. If you feel that you need to read all of the advice carefully, that will take you about 20 minutes.

• It will be sent to you by email in a matter of seconds, immediately after you pay the fee and click the email button.
• You will be able to download it again from your dashboard as often as you like and you will be able to email it to yourself or to someone else, as often as you like.

• It is free for you to edit your document for a year, as many times as you like. You won't be able to change the name of the trust. However, everything else is freely changeable, as many times as you like for a year.
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