Critics say dynasty trusts will further increase the concentration of wealth, can benefit people estranged from the donor and encourage litigation over the right to money from the fund and over how it is invested.
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If a dynasty trust of roughly $ 1 million was established today, Rothschild figured, it would be worth $ 867.7 million after four generations, assuming that it grew 7 percent a year and none was spent.
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Alan Halpern, an estate tax specialist at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, says that if the estate tax is repealed or limited to billionaires, heirs of those who create dynasty trusts may be unhappy.
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"Dynasty trusts are tremendously attractive, because wealth builds up quickly when it can be passed on without paying estate taxes at each successive generation, " said Gideon Rothschild, a partner at Moses & Singer, a law firm in New York.
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Dynasty trusts in the United States are the combined result of the imposition of the generation-skipping transfer tax upon trusts that attempted to bypass transferring all assets to children, and the repeal of the rule against perpetuities by states attempting to attract the great wealth of such trusts.
