{"id":428,"date":"2018-03-01T19:32:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T19:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/duneganlaw.com\/?p=428"},"modified":"2018-06-27T01:06:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T01:06:23","slug":"does-the-trust-provide-protection-from-creditor-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/2018\/03\/01\/does-the-trust-provide-protection-from-creditor-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Does The Trust Provide Protection From Creditor Claims?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Florida, the trust assets are not protected from the claims of your creditors. During your lifetime the assets in a revocable trust are treated as owned by you, and subject to the claims of your creditor as if you owned them in your personal name. If the trust assets remain in trust after your death, the interests of the beneficiaries may be protected from their creditors by a \u201cspendthrift\u201d provision in the trust agreement. Florida law provides special protection for many types of assets, including assets owned by a husband and wife as \u201ctenants by the entirety.\u201d Consideration should be given to these assets when you decide how to fund your revocable trust. An attorney can advise you on the types of assets that offer creditor protection and the effect of funding your trust with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Florida, the trust assets are not protected from the claims of your creditors. During your lifetime the assets in a revocable trust are treated as owned by you, and subject to the claims of your creditor as if you owned them in your personal name. If the trust assets remain in trust after your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duneganlaw.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}