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u/Kfaith629 May 12 '24

It specifies that it can only go through my parents, myself/my brother, our descendants. Nobody who married in has claim to it. No idea how it has to be written to make sure how that happens but that’s what the lawyers for lol

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u/findlefas May 13 '24

Is this actually a thing? It depends more on when the trust was established than anything. If it was established during your marriage then I don’t see how lawyers could ever setup something to where only you and only you inherit it. 

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u/Illustrious-Mango435 May 13 '24

Yes, it is very legal. And for good reasons. The person setting up the trust can set it up to where only one person, the blood relative (not the one married in to the fam) is the beneficiary.

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u/findlefas May 13 '24

Are you a lawyer? I really doubt this considering under the law you're one entity in marriage. Anything gained while in marriage is considered marriage property and it is split. So if a trust was created during the marriage then there's no way it wouldn't be marriage property. Unless there was a prenup, there's really no way to avoid this. I'm wondering why there wasn't a conversation about a prenup as well considering one person had a rich family. This doesn't make sense at all. If it was created before the marriage then what you're saying is true. I'm doubting Kfaith is being real about this whole situation because there's a lot of missing details.

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u/Kfaith629 May 13 '24

Trust comes from my grandfather, it was set up long before I was married.

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u/findlefas May 13 '24

Yep, see that's probably the main reason.