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Course Information
  • smart_display Format

    Live Online with Live Q&A

  • signal_cellular_alt Difficulty Level

    Beginner

  • work Practice Area

    Estate Planning

Date & Time
  • event Date

    Tuesday, November 4, 2025

  • schedule Time

    1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT

  • timer Program Length

    60 minutes

Credit Information

  • This 60-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.0 CLE credits.


  • Live Online


    On Demand

$147.00

This course is $0 with these passes:

CLE
ALL
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This CLE webinar will provide attorneys foundational knowledge and practicum guidance for the use and structuring of grantor trusts. The panel will outline the benefits to clients of using grantor trusts, explain practical drafting and structuring techniques, and help counsel avoid the mistakes and potential pitfalls for the usage and structuring of grantor trusts.

Faculty

Avigail Goldglancz
Counsel
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Ms. Goldglancz focuses her practice on estate and tax planning, including estate succession, gift and generation skipping transfers, charitable giving and international tax advice, and planning for cross-border investments, wealth transfer and asset protection, estate and trust administration, and estate and probate litigation. Her practice also focuses on tax optimization strategies designed specifically for founders, investors and executives, including strategies to minimize capital gains tax, state taxes and estate taxes, and to protect her client’s assets. Ms. Goldglancz has been recognized by Best Lawyers as One to Watch since 2021. She is editor-in-chief of the Trusts & Estates Law Section Journal of the New York State Bar Association, and is admitted to practice law in New York, New Jersey and Texas.

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Description

Effective use of grantor trusts can save on taxes, clarify intent, organize the transfer of assets, and simplify estate administration. Trusts and estates counsel use grantor trusts to protect assets and provide a level of flexibility to adapt to changing circumstances while also maintaining control of assets.

Grantor trusts—including GRATs and loans and sales to IDGTs—are effective methods for transferring assets and property that will likely appreciate in value to beneficiaries because they allow the grantor to sell or transfer assets to the trust without recognizing a gain.

Counsel must understand the legal framework and rules related to grantor trusts, requirements for transferring assets, restrictions, grantor and trustee powers, how to make distributions, and other key considerations.

Listen as our panel discusses the benefits to clients of using grantor trusts, explains practical drafting and structuring techniques, and helps counsel avoid the mistakes and potential pitfalls for the usage and structuring of grantor trusts.

Outline

I. Key considerations for establishing a grantor trust

II. Types of grantor trusts

III. Grantor powers and funding issues

IV. Key trust provisions and drafting considerations

V. Tax implications of grantor trusts

Benefits

The panel will discuss these and other key issues:

  • What are the reasons and circumstances for utilizing grantor trusts?
  • What are the key distinctions for grantor vs. non-grantor trusts?
  • What are the applicable legal and tax rules to consider when utilizing grantor trusts?
  • What are the best grantor trust structures and their pros and cons?
  • How are grantor trusts funded, and what are the challenges?
  • What are the key provisions and pitfalls to avoid?
  • How are these types of trusts implemented and administered?