by Christine Smyth, TEP abd Katerina Peiros, ATI, Hartwell Legal,
Gifting assets by will to a pre-existing or inter vivos trust is not a breach of the rule against delegation, so long as the trust is “sufficiently constituted according to the rules of certainty in trust law”, in particular, it can be determined with certainty whether “any given individual is or is not a member of the class” of beneficiaries of the trust.
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