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Wealth Management Services

Personal Trust Administration

When creating a trust, you want to feel confident that it will be administered with efficiency and diligence. Experience how generations of families have benefited from our trust management skill.

A high caliber of personal trust administration

Wilmington Trust provides a variety of services designed to help ensure that your trust is efficiently administered to help grow, protect, and preserve wealth for future generations.

Administrative and recordkeeping responsibilities

Administer trust according to the specific terms of the trust agreement
Exercise the trustee's discretion when appropriate
Provide continuity of administration during times of grantor's incapacity or disability
Maintain detailed records of all account transactions
Issue monthly or quarterly principal and income statements and asset summaries

Tax-related responsibilities*

Keep record of taxable and tax-exempt income
Adjust tax-cost basis
File trust tax returns annually and furnish tax information to beneficiaries

*Wilmington Trust is not authorized to and does not provide legal or accounting advice. Wilmington Trust does not provide tax advice, except where we have agreed to provide tax preparation services to you. Our advice and recommendations provided to you are illustrative only and subject to the opinions and advice of your own attorney, tax advisor, or other professional advisor.

Let us provide the administrative services you may need to help fulfill your trust objectives.

Contact one of our team members

Nadja Steve

Head of Specialized Administration and Governance

Patrick Murphy

Chief Fiduciary Officer & Business Risk Officer

Frank Sutton

Head of Trust Administration and Estate Settlement

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