There are many kinds of charitable trusts out there but you won’t hear much about charitable lead trusts, largely for the reason that they are often overlooked by many estate planning lawyers and financial planners.

The charitable remainder trust still remains the charitable giving tool of choice, but the charitable lead trust can still have many benefits for the right people and in the right situations.

In a manner of speaking, the charitable lead trust (CLT) is the inverse of a charitable remainder trust (CRT). But it’s more technical than that, so I’ll do what I can to simplify the concepts in a short blog post.  Read more... (430 words, estimated 1:43 mins reading time)