Solutions / Estate Planning
For Families With an Estate Plan

Signed in an afternoon. Kept current for years.

Every trust’s roles, holdings and signed copies, so nobody starts from a binder.

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Harrington Family Trust documents: trust agreement, first amendment and certification of trust, with the year’s expected K-1 received

Sound familiar?

The binder is on a shelf somewhere

The trust agreement, the amendments, the certification. Signed once, then filed where nobody can find them in a hurry.

Who’s the successor trustee now?

A trustee steps down, an amendment names someone new. The change lives in one document, and nobody updates the rest.

Trusts have deadlines too

An irrevocable trust files its own return, and K‑1s arrive addressed to it. Someone has to keep that calendar.

How Rhodes handles it

Shown with a fictional family’s records. The product is real.

Every trust, on the record

Who holds which role, from the documents

Grantor, trustee, successor trustee, situs and trust type for each trust, read from the trust instrument and its amendments.

  • Each role linked to the person who holds it
  • Ask about any of it in plain English
Trust details: irrevocable South Dakota trust with grantor, trustee and successor trustee
What the trust owns

Ask what each trust holds, and through what

The holding company, the SPV, the direct investments. Rhodes answers from your records, with the work shown.

  • Direct holdings and what sits underneath them
  • When it isn’t sure, it asks. It doesn’t guess.
Ask Rhodes listing what the Harrington Family Trust owns directly
Trust filings, tracked

The return the trust files, on the calendar

Rhodes builds each trust’s obligations from how it’s set up and taxed, so the Form 1041 isn’t the one that slips.

  • Federal and state, alongside every other entity
  • A K‑1 owed to the trust gets flagged if it doesn’t arrive
Harrington Family Trust overview: South Dakota trust, what it owns, Form 1041 coming up
Ready when someone asks

Send the certification of trust, after you approve

When a bank or an attorney asks for proof of the trust, email Rhodes. It replies with an approval card showing exactly what will go. Nothing is shared until you reply APPROVE.

Built for the years after the signing

The plan, the people in it and what it owns, kept as one record.

Trust roles

Grantors, trustees and successors, with the documents behind them.

Signed copies

Trust agreements, amendments and certifications, filed to each trust.

What each trust owns

Holdings and the entities underneath, from the records.

Trust filings

Each trust’s returns and state obligations on the calendar.

Expected documents

If a K‑1 owed to the trust hasn’t arrived, Rhodes notices.

Approved sharing

Banks and attorneys get documents only after you say so.

What changes

No binder hunt

The signed copies are a search away, not a drawer away.

Roles you can trust

Who holds which role is on the record, with the document that says so.

Ready for the handoff

When a successor steps in, the plan and its paperwork are already organized.

Nothing lapses

Trust returns and state filings tracked with everything else.

And when Rhodes isn’t sure, it asks. It doesn’t guess.

Keep the plan as current as the day you signed it.

All the complexity of a family office. None of the staff.

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