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  • 11 - Trusts and the 100-Year Life

  • from Part II - Protecting Rights and Preparing for the Future
  • Edited by Anne L. Alstott, Yale University, Connecticut, Abbe R. Gluck, Yale University, Connecticut, Eugene Rusyn, Yale University, Connecticut
  • Book:
    Law and the 100-Year Life
    Published online:
    13 May 2025
    Print publication:
    29 May 2025, pp 146-152
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    As people live longer, how will they change the way they transfer their property when they die? This chapter argues that death-time transfers will become less important, not more. Longer lifespans will deplete more of the wealth people might have otherwise transferred upon their deaths and will necessitate transfers earlier in donors’ lifetimes to ensure wealth can be accessed by children and other donees at times when they are still young enough to use the wealth productively. Enabling flexibility in the timing of transfers will require changes to income, estate, and gift tax policies that currently favor transfers at death. Will-making will become less important as people use up their wealth or transfer it before their deaths.