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Charitable Lead Trust

Acronym: CLT

In plain English

The inverse of a CRT — charity gets income for a term, your heirs get what's left.

Useful when you want to support a charity now but also pass principal to heirs later, potentially at a reduced gift/estate tax valuation.

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