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estate planning attorney paul rabelais and in this video we're going to talk about when distribution should be made from a trust to a beneficiary okay so here's the background you can give away money to your heirs voluntarily if you want to during your lifetime or you can provide that when you pass away you leave assets or money to your heirs and essentially there's two ways to either give or leave money or assets to your heirs the first way you can do it is you give or leave it to them outright so you pass away you left two hundred thousand dollars to your child or to your grandchild they get a check that's the outright bequest they do what they want to it to with it you have no say-so as to when they get it or how it could be used and many people elect to do that particularly when their heirs are very responsible very common the second way you can give or leave assets to your heirs whether it's children grandchildren or other people is to leave it to them in a trust and this is not something that's for just the rich folks i mean you could be leaving a couple of hundred thousand dollars to somebody and the worst thing you could do is leave it to them outright maybe they're on drugs or they have poor spending habits or for whatever reason it's just not right for them to get a big check probably because they're gonna waste it so this is really middle-class you know middle class on up uh a good conversation to have so in in this video i want to talk about nine different ways you can provide for distributions from a trust to a beneficiary all right number one is you leave it to them in a trust and they get it at a certain age you see this a lot when parents with minor children set up their wills set up a trust for their children and the parents usually say something like you know if we pass away and we have young children then when we pass away our state will go into a trust for our young children and they can get their share when they reach the age of 25. now if they say that they'll probably also say something like in the event before they're 25 if the trustee determines they need assets for their health education maintenance or support the typical hems standard hems health education maintenance and support then the trustee has the discretion to make distributions two or four those beneficiaries prior to that termination date at age 25 so that's example number one number two is they receive it at a certain date maybe parents have three children relatively close in age or maybe grandparents have five grandchildren and the parents grandparents set up a trust for those grandchildren and say at a specified date in...