Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 1 of 1
Full-Text Articles in Estates and Trusts
The Pour-Over Trust, Elliott H. Kajan
The Pour-Over Trust, Elliott H. Kajan
Cleveland State Law Review
One of the most important features of the inter vivos trust is its function as the receptacle of a pour-over provision in a will. The pour-over device is utilized when a disposition by a will provides, often in the residuary clause, for the devise or bequest of additional property to a previously created inter vivos trust This avoids the necessity of repeating in the will all the terms of the trust, and the estate conveyed to the trust is not thereafter involved in probate proceedings. The grantor of an amendable inter vivos trust can thus create and remodel an estate …