spendthrift trust

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noun Law.

a trust that provides a fund for a beneficiary, as a minor, with the title vested so that the fund or its income cannot be claimed by others, as creditors of the beneficiary.

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Also called sheltering trust.

Words nearby spendthrift trust

spendable, spender, spending money, spends, spendthrift, spendthrift trust, Spener, Spengler, Spenser, Spenserian, Spenserian sonnet

Example sentences from the Web for spendthrift trust

We proud skeptics would rather trust the demonstrable facts than the alleged truth.
On Torture, Chuck Johnson & Sondheim|James Poulos|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And ultimately this creates steadily eroding trust among voters for not just politics but the institutions of government.
Just What We Needed: More Campaign Spending|Mark McKinnon|December 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Others have taken the stage to tell women to just work harder and trust in karma.
Tech’s Male ‘Feminists’ Aren’t Helping|Cate Huston, Karen Catlin|December 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If she wants voters to believe and trust in her, she must court favor with the local pastor, Jeremiah.
The Good Wife’s Religion Politics: Voters Have No Faith in Alicia's Atheism|Regina Lizik|November 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST

In order for a reunion to happen, it would take a high level of trust, musically, on everything that happened.
Wyclef Jean Talks Lauryn Hill, the Yele Haiti Controversy, and Chris Christie|Marlow Stern|November 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
If you throw away this chance, you will both richly deserve to be hanged, as I sincerely trust you will be.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2)|Charles Dickens
There are three things a wise man will not trust: the wind, the sunshine of an April day, and woman's plighted faith.
Pearls of Thought|Maturin M. Ballou
He must trust to his human merits, and not miracles, for his Sonship is of no value in this conflict.
Solomon and Solomonic Literature|Moncure Daniel Conway
As if unwilling to trust himself longer in dangerous companionship, he went up to town with Thomas Carr.
Elster's Folly|Mrs. Henry Wood
I would not trust their removal to any other hand, and so, the panel comes out without a shake.
Checkmate|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

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