Standby Trusts


Definition of "Standby trusts"

Preston Murphy & Diane Harmon
  Keller Williams Realty

Trusts in which individuals manage their own assets and only if a predetermined event occurs, such as incapacity, will another party take over the management of these assets. Upon recovering from the incapacity, the individual may resume the management of the assets.


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