grantor
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While your father is alive, his revocable living trust is generally treated as a grantor trust, so it uses his Social Security number and doesn’t file a separate fiduciary income-tax return.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
To swap assets, a trust must be an irrevocable grantor trust.
From Barron's ● May 16, 2026
Many dynasty trusts are set up to be “intentionally defective grantor trusts.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2025
Spot Ethereum ETFs will directly hold Ether, the second-largest cryptocurrency after Bitcoin, allowing investors to own a share of the cryptocurrency through grantor trusts.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2024
“My knowing that the treasure was on it when purchased, may make me liable to my grantor for an accounting.”
From In Her Own Right by Underwood, Clarence F.
To your point: This rather punitive tax structure encourages grantors — again, that’s you — to distribute income to beneficiaries rather than retain that income, which is then compressed into higher tax brackets.
From MarketWatch ● May 23, 2026
Here’s what five recipients, and grantors told us.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
Buy-in from the research community could easily be obtained if referees and grantors required declaration of all sampling information.
From Nature ● Aug. 27, 2019
The opening paragraph identifies the parties as parents or legal guardians, who will be the grantors, and the individuals being granted guardianship, who will be grantees.
From Encyclopedia.com ● Sep. 19, 2018
This is quite different from a conditional title, which limits the grant to a particular use and works a reinvestment of full title in the Indian grantors when that use ceases.
From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison by Harrison, Benjamin
