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

Benefactors would convey land for the use of the friars to a suitable local person (the feoffee) to hold legal fee simple title, while promising to allow the friars to live on and receive the profits of the land

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

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This often happens when parents or grandparents are first in line to become the administrator but renounce their rights on the grounds that they are elderly, do not possess knowledge of estate law, or feel that someone else is better suited to the task

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

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