How to Use settlor in a Sentence

settlor

noun

• This can provide more privacy for settlors.
  — Adam Fayed, Forbes.com, 12 Mar. 2026
• Take the duress clause, for example, designed to protect assets if the founder or settlor is ever placed under undue pressure.
  — Harsh Patel, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• The trust may protect assets if it is properly structured and funded far enough in advance of death, and if the settlor doesn’t retain excessive control.
  — Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
• The top layer — the revocable trust — is a big nothingburger because the assets of a revocable trust are available to creditors of the person who created it, known as the settlor or sometimes trustor.
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
• Few people have heard of special purpose vehicle custodial institutions, which is a trust or entity that holds investment companies for the benefit of a settlor.
  — Adam Fayed, Forbes.com, 12 Mar. 2026
• But, an irrevocable trust can do what revocable trusts cannot do, which is to contain inside liabilities away from the settlor and his other assets, as well as distance the assets from the investor's outside liabilities.
  — Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
• That is because Cook Islands trusts are structured to separate legal ownership (trustee) from beneficial ownership (settlor/beneficiaries).
  — Adam Fayed, Forbes.com, 12 Mar. 2026
• DAPTs are currently offered in a number of states, including those known for strong trust laws, like Nevada, South Dakota and Delaware, though the level of protection may vary depending on the settlor’s residency.
  — Blake Harris, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025