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Failing to Plan for the Loss of a Trustee: How Relying on Family Friends Can Put Your Trust at Risk

Many parents appoint a close family friend as trustee of their family trust because they know a close friend will administer the trust for the best interest of the beneficiaries – their children. They choose a second close friend as the alternate trustee because they believe their friends care abo...

Appointing a Child as Trustee: How a Well-Intentioned Choice Can Compromise Your Irrevocable Trust

Parents may appoint...

Family Trust Mistakes: When Mismanagement of Trust Funds Lead to Financial and Legal Ramifications

Many individuals appoint...

Why You Need to Put Your Wealth in a Trust

The Greatest Wealth Transfer in History is underway. In the next 20 years, members of Generation X...

Family Trust Mistakes: How Relying on Relatives Devastates Your Fortune and Tears Your Family Apart

Is the trustee for your......

Navigating Trust Structures: Directed vs. Delegated Trusts

Blended families, where one or both spouses bring children from previous marriages into a new family...

The Benefits of Trusts in Blended Families: South Dakota Situs

Blended families, where one or both spouses bring children from previous...

An alternative to the Massachusetts Millionaire Tax

On November 8, 2022, Massachusetts voters approved a ballot measure to amend the Massachusetts......

Reflections on the 57th Annual University of Miami Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning

I was thrilled to join our President/CEO......

Trusts 101: Skilled Advisors Navigate Toward Smoother Seas – Growing and Protecting Your Business Using Trusts

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Trusts 101: Shelter from the Storm – How Trusts Help Protect Investment Advisor Businesses and Their Clients’ Assets

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Trusts 101: Perfect Storm – the Looming Threat to Your Investment Advisory Practice

In our view, there’s a perfect storm on the horizon...

Trusts 101: South Dakota puts the special in Special Purpose Entity

South Dakota is consistently regarded by high-net-worth individuals and their...

Trusts 101: Why Partner With An Independent Corporate Trustee

When setting up a trust, choosing the trustee is the most important decision...

Trusts 101 for Investment Advisors: Why South Dakota Is the Top Situs for Your Clients’ Trusts

When setting up a trust...

Trusts 101 for Investment Advisors: Types of Trusts Explained

Are you advising your clients on the transfer of wealth through generations via...

Trusts 101 For Investment Advisors: What Is a Trust and How Do Trusts Work?

As baby boomers have started reaching retirement...

South Dakota’s Long History of Support for the Trust Industry Keeps It a Top Choice as Trust Situs

For anyone actively...

Common Questions about Asset Protection Trusts

From time to time the news media covers various issues related to the popularity of South Dakota’s...

When selecting a trustee, does size really matter?

When we start working with a new client, it’s often at the end of an evaluation process that invol...

Real estate strategy affected by a slow corporate trustee?

Have you lost out on a home buying opportunity because you couldn’t get a distribution in time? He...

For attorneys, retiring can be trickier than you thought

Over the past few months, we have had several calls from attorneys who are...

3 Takeaways from the 53rd Annual Heckerling Conference

In January, I had the pleasure of attending the 53rd Annual Heckerling Conference...

Are you a creature of habit – at the expense of your clients?

In many situations, being a creature of habit is beneficial. It guides you through...

A tax time opportunity that you, as an attorney, must explore for your clients

“...It’s the most wonderful......

Frustrated woman because her trust officer was slow to process a distribution

Are clients complaining about the slow response time from their corporate trustee?

Your client’s corporate trustee relationship is...

Wealthy family who uses trust administration services to protect their assets

9 Questions Wealthy Families Should Be Asking in 2018

Here we are passing through February into March already and settling in to a new year. Often, the ne...

Sterling Trustees top-ranked in SD by Chambers and Partners

Sterling Trustees, LLC has been recognized by Chambers and Partners...

Trust business swells in SD with international changes

For decades, South Dakota has been among the most favorable places in the…...

Wealth Advisor: How South Dakota Became A Leader In National Trust

Last year Gov. Dennis Daugaard reconfigured South Dakota's trust task force…...

In recent years, trust activity getting large in South Dakota

Trust companies headquartered in South Dakota surpassed...

Private Wealth magazine: The South Dakota Story

The casual observer has probably encountered a South Dakota story without even knowing it. Such stor...

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