Every kind of trust, in one place.

Settlor retains control during life; avoids probate at death. Tax-invisible while settlor lives.

Locks assets out of the settlor's estate; common for tax planning and asset protection.

Created inside a will; only effective at death and goes through probate first.

Moves wealth between spouses with tax precision; QTIP preserves marital deduction.

Uses the estate tax exemption on the first death to shelter assets from the second estate.

Shields beneficiary distributions from creditors and from the beneficiary's own poor decisions.

Preserves a disabled beneficiary's eligibility for public benefits while supplementing quality of life.

Designed to be difficult for creditors to reach; domestic versions exist in select states; offshore versions in select jurisdictions.

Multi-generational; perpetual where state law allows; designed to avoid transfer tax across generations.

Pays an income stream to a non-charitable beneficiary with the remainder going to charity.

Pays charity first for a term, remainder to family — useful when asset appreciation is expected.

Tax-advantaged transfer of expected appreciation to remainder beneficiaries.

Uses intentional mismatches between income-tax and transfer-tax rules to compound wealth outside the estate.

Transfers a personal residence at reduced gift-tax cost while the grantor retains use for a term.

Yes, really — provides for an animal beneficiary; allowed by statute in most US states.

Pairs with a will so residual probate assets pour into the living trust at death.

A court-imposed equitable remedy — not a planned structure; arises to prevent unjust enrichment.

Implied by law when an express trust fails or property is mistakenly transferred.

ERISA-governed retirement plans operate as trusts with named fiduciaries — fiduciary law on steroids.

Operates as a business entity in some states; common historical form for real-estate and investment pools.

Securitised real estate vehicle that, if qualified, passes income through with favourable tax treatment.

Held by the United States for a tribe as a government; cannot be alienated without federal approval.

Held by the United States for individual Indians as a legacy of the Dawes-era allotments; subject to AIPRA probate.

Federally administered accounts holding income from individual trust lands (leases, royalties).

Established under treaties, settlements, or claims awards to hold funds for tribal beneficiaries.

Statutory and common-law doctrine — navigable waters, shorelines, and certain natural resources are held in trust for the public.

Modern instruments holding crypto, private keys, NFT collections — the fiduciary problem of irreversible bearer assets.

Emerging legal vehicle that holds data on behalf of a community — proposed for genomic data, sensor networks, civic data.

Not a legal trust, but the public charter under which a platform commits to keep users safe — increasingly mandated by regulation.