Asset Protection QTIP Trusts

Section 736.0505, Florida Statutes, provides that a settlor’s creditors may reach the assets of a trust created by the settlor for his or her own benefit, a so called “self-settled” trust. New Section 736.0505(3), however, allows married couples to create irrevocable qualified terminable interest property (“QTIP”) trusts to achieve their asset protection, estate planning and…

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