grantor

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The upside is that they are flexible estate-planning tools created during a person’s lifetime and can be altered or terminated by the grantor at any time.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 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

The basic action is that a grantor will give up actual or prospective interest; whether that interest is transferred onto a grantee is up to the parties involved.

From Encyclopedia.com • Feb. 5, 2018

At one time he owned 100,000 acres and was grantor of much of the land in ancient Pittston.

From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.