Legal Forms

Protect your assets and avoid probate proceedings by placing your estate property into a family trust with this USA Revocable Living Trust Deed.

• This Trust Deed sets up a family trust from which the grantor's spouse and children will be paid distributions of income and principal after the grantor's death.
• During the grantor's lifetime, the trustee will pay the income and principal of the trust to the grantor as the grantor directs, or failing any instructions, as the trustee sees fit.
• The grantor will act as the original trustee of the Trust.
• If the grantor becomes unable to manage his/her affairs, the trustee may pay the trust income and principal to the grantor's spouse and/or children.
• On the grantor's death, his/her tangible personal property is to pass to his/her spouse, or if the spouse has predeceased, in equal shares per stirpes to the children.
• The trust estate is protected against claims, encumbrances, pledge or seizure as the result of any act of a beneficiary.
• On the death or incompetency of the grantor, the grantor's spouse or, alternatively, a majority of the grantor's children have the power to remove the trustee and appoint a successor.
• Available in MS Word format.
• Intended to be used only in the United States.

Keep your estate assets out of probate by setting up a living trust under this Revocable Trust Deed form for Canadian residents.

• The trust can be used to hold many kinds of assets including cash, real property, personal property, stocks and bonds.
• The trustees can use cash held in the trust fund to pay taxes, mortgage payments, maintenance and other costs associated with any real estate properties that form part of the trust assets.
• The beneficiaries can use and enjoy any real property held in trust until the division date (i.e. the date on which the trust assets are distributed and the trust is wound up).
• The trustees are authorized to divide and distribute any share of the trust in order to ensure that taxable capital gains required to be paid by the trust are kept to a minimum.
• The trustees are given specific instructions for handling payments to be made to minor beneficiaries or beneficiaries who are incapacitated.
• Trustees must disclose any potential conflict of interest and refrain from voting on any decisions which may put them in a position of conflict.
• The trustees are indemnified and held harmless against claims and losses arising from their acting in good faith as a trustee.
• This is a revocable trust which can be revoked by the trustees in their discretion.
• The package includes:
  • a Consent of Trustee form which should be signed by each trustee and successor trustee at the time they accept the appointment,
  • a Resolution of the Trustees to establish the trust,
  • a Trustees Register.
• Available in MS Word format.
• The Trust Deed template can be used in most provinces and territories of Canada. Some jurisdictions, such as Quebec, may require a French translation.

Cancel a Power of Attorney you have made with this Revocation of Power of Attorney form for India.

• By revoking your existing Power of Attorney, you cancel the authority and powers you granted to your attorney.
• You should give a copy of the signed Revocation to your attorney, and to any bank, business or other party who may be relying on the original Power of Attorney.
• This form is provided in MS Word format and is easy to download and use.
• Intended to be used only for powers of attorney made under Indian laws.

Terminate a living trust with this free Revocation Form for US-based trusts.

• This revocation form can only be used to collapse a revocable trust. By its very nature, an irrevocable trust cannot be revoked.
• The grantor (the person who set up the trust) has the authority to wind up the living trust.
• The grantor gives directions to the trustee to return all remaining trust property to the grantor.
• The trustee's appointment as trustee is revoked once the trust property has been returned.
• Available in MS Word format.

Cancel your Power of Attorney with this Rhode Island Revocation of Power of Attorney form.

• So long as you have mental capacity and can understand the impact of what you are doing, you have the right to cancel an existing Power of Attorney at any time, and revoke the powers you gave to your attorney-in-fact.
• Once you have signed the form, give a copy of it to the attorney-in-fact.
• You should also give a copy to any bank, trust company, and other firms or people that your attorney has been dealing with on your behalf.
• This is a free downloadable legal form in MS Word format.
• Intended for use in the State of Rhode Island.

Download a free copy of the last will and testament of Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1994).

• Richard Nixon was the 37th President of the United States from 1969 to 1974 and was also the 36th Vice President of the United States (1953 to 1961), and the first born in the 20th century.
• Nixon was the only President to resign the office and also the only person to be elected twice in both the offices of the Presidency and Vice presidency.
• In 1952 he became one of the youngest Vice Presidents in history, serving under Dwight D. Eisenhower. He lost his bid to become President in 1960, narrowly losing to John F. Kennedy, and after losing a race for Governor in California in 1962, he withdrew from politics. In 1968, however, he ran again for president of the United States and was elected.
• The most immediate task facing President Nixon was a resolution of the Vietnam War. He initially escalated the conflict, overseeing incursions into neighboring countries, though American military personnel were gradually withdrawn and he successfully negotiated a ceasefire with North Vietnam in 1973, effectively ending American involvement in the war. His foreign policy initiatives were largely successful: his groundbreaking visit to the People's Republic of China in 1972 opened diplomatic relations between the two nations, and he initiated the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with the Soviet Union. At home, he implemented new economic policies which called for wage and price control and the abolition of the gold standard. He was reelected by a landslide in 1972.
• In his second term, the nation was afflicted with economic difficulties. In the face of likely impeachment for his role in the Watergate scandal, Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974. He was later pardoned by his successor, Gerald Ford, for any federal crimes he may have committed while in office.
• In his retirement, Nixon became a prolific author and undertook many foreign trips. His work as an elder statesman helped to rehabilitate his public image. He died following a debilitating stroke at the age of 81.

Source: Wikipedia.com.

Grant a right of first refusal to another shareholder with this Right of First Refusal Agreement to Acquire Shares template.

• The Agreement grants one shareholder a first right of refusal to acquire shares owned by another shareholder ('granting shareholder').
• The right is granted pursuant to the winding up of a third shareholder (a company solely owned by the granting shareholder) and the transfer of the third shareholder's share interest to the granting shareholder.
• This is a generic legal form which is not specific to any country or region.
• The Right of First Refusal Agreement to Acquire Shares is available in MS Word format and is fully editable to fit your needs.

This Right of First Refusal clause can be inserted into a Shareholder Agreement to govern how a shareholder disposes of its shares.

• If a shareholder receives an arm's length offer from a third party to purchase its shares, the selling shareholder must give the other shareholders a right of first refusal to buy the shares before selling them to the third party.
• The clauses are downloadable and customizable.
• These generic clauses can be used in any common law country.
• Available in MS Word format.

Download this free copy of the last will and testament of Rob Roy (1671-1734).

• Rob Roy is the name by which history remembers legendary Scottish Highland clan chief Robert MacGregor. He was also known as Red Robert, because of his red beard.
• Outlawed for debts incurred in cattle dealing, he fled to the hills and lived by robbing his creditor the Duke of Montrose.
• Popular legend idealized Rob Roy's crimes as robbing the rich to pay the poor, immortalizing him as a Scottish Robin Hood.

This is a copy of the Last Will of Robbie Burns (1759-1796).

• Scotland's favourite son, Robert Burns (also known as Robbie Burns, Rabbie Burns, the Ploughman Poet, the Bard of Ayrshire and in Scotland as simply The Bard) was a poet and a lyricist.
• He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide for his homely, humorous and satirical style.
• Burns was a pioneer of the Romantic movement. He is famous for his astute political and civil commentary.
• Robbie Burns Day is celebrated amongst Scots around the world to commemorate his life and work.