Special Needs Trust

Special needs trusts provide for continuing conservation and enhancement of the assets transferred to the Trust to supplement, not supplant, other benefits for which the beneficiary might be eligible as a result of the beneficiary’s disability, whether through public or private, profit or non-profit corporations or agencies. Trusts can be Self-Settled which are generally funded from a personal injury lawsuit and have a payback provision for benefits paid by a public agency at the death of the disabled person, or may be Third Party which is simply an Inter Vivos or testamentary trust created by a family member with their own funds with the intention of benefiting a disabled person without disqualifying the disabled person for public benefits