If a man owed and he could not pay, he and his wife, children or servants were forced into "debt slavery" until the creditor recouped losses through their physical labour

However the feoffee had no legal obligations to the beneficiary in English common law, so after the death of the feoffor, there was no one to enforce the promises made by the feoffee or his ancestor

Court Programs Bankruptcy Bankruptcy helps people who can no longer pay their debts get a fresh start by liquidating assets

Federal income tax purposes, a life insurance trust could be used to pay estate taxes

It is possible to get a professional executor to renounce their role, meaning they will have no part in dealing with the estate; or to reserve their power, which means the remaining executors will carry out the related duties, but without the involvement of the professional executor

In the context of the unincorporated reciprocal inter-insurance exchange (URIE) the attorney-in-fact is a stakeholder/trustee who takes custody of the subscriber funds placed on deposit with him, and then uses those funds to pay insurance claims

Most relatively simple estates (cash, publicly traded securities, small amounts of other easily valued assets, and no special deductions or elections, or jointly held property) do not require the filing of an estate tax return