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Settlor vs Trustee in a Trust
A trust works best when you treat it as an operating structure, not just a stack of legal documents. The first decision is role design: who writes the rules, who carries them out, who benefits, and who steps in if the first trustee cannot serve? Once you frame it that way, the settlor-trustee split becomes much easier to evaluate.
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