TSEM6521 - Legal background to trusts and estates: setting up a Scottish trust

»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýappre are two main ways to set up a Scottish trust. »Ê¹ÚÌåÓýappy are

  • between the living, and
  • by the terms of a will.

Scottish intestacy law does not create trusts.

Between the living (inter-vivos)

»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp trust comes into being during the lifetime of the person who set it up. That person is called the truster.

By the terms of a will

»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp trust is called a testamentary trust.