What is a Trust and how does it work?

Trusts were often used by knights planning to join the Crusades in the 11th and 12th centuries. Those with estates would leave them to be managed on their behalf by trusted friends. Some, of course, would not return from fighting in the holy wars and their property would then be managed for the benefit of…

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What is a Trustee and what do they do?

Give most teenagers £1,000 and watch it metamorphise within days into a mobile phone, a ripped pair of jeans and a ridiculous hair style. Although that may be exactly what they wanted, it’s probably not in their best interests. Perhaps the money would have been better spent on a school trip abroad or saved towards…

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