Are support trusts voluntarily alienable?

🥺 Trusts • Transfer of Interests TRUSTS#020

Legal Definition

No. Interests in a support trust are not freely alienable.

Plain English Explanation

A beneficiary of a support trust cannot give up, trade, transfer, or sell their benefit to someone else.

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