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Tax Planning: Meat Loaf’s Estate

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Using a bypass trust is another way to avoid the estate tax. In this case, Meat Loaf could have created a trust to hold an amount equal to his unused individual lifetime exclusion amount ($12.06 million), with any excess passing to his wife either outright or through a marital trust, therefore bypassing estate tax liability.

Celebrity Estates: Meat Loaf

Meat Loaf Rocker Estate Plan

By the time he died, Meat Loaf had appeared in hundreds of TV shows, endearing himself to a younger generation with roles in Wayne’s World and Fight Club. He married twice, and had two children.