Trusts That Own Businesses and Real Estate: Revocable, Grantor, Spousal, and S Corporation-Eligible Trusts

Put your business and property interests in the right trusts so they pass without probate, stay out of your taxable estate, and do not break your S corporation election.

Who it is for: Owners of S corporations, LLCs, and rentals who have or need a trust.
Runtime: 60 minutes

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What you receive

Trust-as-Owner eligibility chart: which trusts can own what
QSST and ESBT election statement templates with a deadline calculator
Trust Ownership Transfer checklist: assignment, consent, and K-1
Business-in-Trust structure diagram in the house style
Grantor Trust Powers explainer: which power does what
The narrated lesson. 60 minutes, cued to the deck, with chapter markers by lesson. Emailed to you the day it publishes, at no extra cost.

What the course covers

01The revocable trust as owner: nothing changes except probate5 min
02The irrevocable grantor trust as owner: out of the estate, taxed to you, and why that is good8 min
03S corporation eligibility for trusts: grantor trusts, the two-year window, and the two elections10 min
04The election deadlines and the relief when you miss them5 min
05LLC and partnership interests in trust: transfer restrictions and consents5 min
06Real estate in trust: title, lenders, and the homestead5 min
07Who can be trustee, and the powers a grantor cannot keep6 min
08Worked example: 40 percent of an S corporation moves to a spousal trust by gift and sale, and a children's trust elects at death10 min
09Tricks of the trade and traps: the swap power, paying the trust's tax, decanting an old trust, and the missed election that ends the S election6 min

How it fits: Requires 3.2, 3.6, and 5.3. Pairs with 8.3.

The standard every course holds

A narrated lesson of 45 to 60 minutes, produced as audio
A designed slide deck you download and keep
A computational workbook that runs the actual legal tests
A toolkit of checklists and protocols
A legal authority appendix carrying the two-pass vetting protocol

Written for a diligent reader with no legal education. Professionally narrated using a studio voice model of Brian T. Boyd. The course is recorded instruction, not a live consultation.

Where this course sits

Track 6: Structuring Business and Estate Architecture

This course is one step in a track built around a single outcome. See the full build order and the other courses that get you there.

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Educational material from the private client curriculum of Brian T. Boyd. This is legal education for a general audience, not legal advice, and no attorney-client relationship is created by purchasing, viewing, or using it. Tax outcomes depend on your facts and your state.