The following article is a combination of materials created for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s Estate Law Institute for 2018. The section on sole use trusts is adapted from the “overview” and “details” texts that are part of the Sole Use Trust...
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The Webcalculators website for online estate, trust, tax, and financial calculators now includes a projection of the value of a “sole use trust” for the benefit of a surviving spouse with and without the election to pre-pay the inheritance tax … Continue reading
Below is an overview/explanation from Webcalculators. For an article addressing the pros and cons of the election, and drafting to allow disclaimers of interests that would prevent the treatment of a trust as a sole use trust, see “‘Sole Use … Continue reading
Pennsylvania inheritance tax law allows a trust for the “sole use” of the surviving spouse to be taxed entirely at the death of the surviving spouse, rather than having to pay tax on the present value of the taxable remainder...