spendthrift
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A spendthrift trust “prevents your child from selling, borrowing against, or misusing their inheritance,” Cote says.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 18, 2026
No one today any longer wishes to hear jokes about nagging mothers-in-law, spendthrift wives or old jalopies, and the men and women who once told them to hardy plaudits are now forgotten.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
Trusts also allow you to put restrictions on how money is spent, which can be important if your heir is a minor child, a spendthrift or someone reliant on public benefits.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2024
The U.S. government is hardly a spendthrift with arts dollars, but what if it were to pony up for the industry again?
From New York Times • May 30, 2024
These visits to the zoo holding on to the hand of some conceited spendthrift suitor gave her a lifelong horror of enclosures, walls, cages, and isolation.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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