About the Family Trust

Family Trust (Discretionary Trust)

Let’s look at what a "Family Trust" is.

A Family Trust (also called a Discretionary Trust) is one of the most common small business structures in Australia. Unlike, say a Unit Trust, you establish a Family Trust to benefit the members of a family. Family Trusts provide families with a great deal of flexibility in sharing the tax burden among family members and protecting family assets.

The Family Trust structure is useful if your family holds capital growth or income-generating assets. Some of the key attributes of the Family Trust are:

•Prepared for asset protection purposes. It helps protect from bankruptcy and insolvency
•It is a relatively low cost and simple structure to use
•It allows you to distribute income to family members who are on low tax rates
•It allows you to “stream” income: you can distribute one type of income to one person and another type of income to another person
•Works in every state of Australia

A Family Trust can operate for up to 80 years.

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