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Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts  Perhaps the Best Kept Secret in Tax Savings


Author:  A. Jude Avelino.


Source: Volume 26, Number 04, Summer 2009 , pp.64-70(7)




Journal of Taxation of Investments

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Abstract: 

A non-traditional view of life insurance is that it is not just for young families. Life insurance, if structured properly, is a good way to pay for estate taxes without the beneficiaries having to sell the deceased person’s assets.

Keywords: ILITs; estate tax; selecting a trustee; gift tax.

Affiliations:  1: Avelino & Nitkewicz LLP.

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