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You’ve dedicated your life to ensuring the financial security of your family. However, without proper preparation, your estate may be unnecessarily depleted, undermining the fruits of your work.

With the proliferation of states that have abolished the rule against perpetuities (RAP) or introduced a statutory RAP with an extremely long term (for example, 800 years or 1,000 years), settlors may ...

Caring about future generations means believing that people who will live decades or centuries from now deserve ethical consideration. In practice, that means taking their interests into account when ...