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Understanding Estates

📘 Understanding Estates

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🔹 What Is an Estate?

An estate refers to the totality of a person’s assets, rights, obligations, and interests, both during life and after death. This includes real property, personal property, financial accounts, contractual rights, intellectual property, and other claims or entitlements.

At US Capital Private Bank, we recognize the Divine origin of human sovereignty, and we administer all estate-related services in full compliance with Divine Law Trust structures, common law principles, and private international law protections.

🔹 Living vs. Decedent Estates

  • Living Estate: The collection of assets, rights, and obligations under your control during your lifetime.

  • Decedent Estate: The estate after death, subject to probate unless structured to avoid it via trusts or private contracts.

🔹 Estate Planning Under Divine Law

US Capital Private Bank assists clients in structuring private, non-statutory estates under Divine Law Trusts, ensuring:

  • Asset protection outside public jurisdiction

  • Bypass of probate and estate tax burdens

  • Continuity of inheritance through private governance

  • Recognition of natural person status, not legal fiction

🔹 Trust vs. Estate: What's the Difference?

Aspect Estate Trust
Legal Status Automatically arises at death Created by contract
Subject to Probate Yes (unless structured otherwise) No (private contract)
Jurisdiction Statutory by default Private by agreement
Creator By operation of law By a voluntary act of a living settlor
Governance Court-supervised Trustee-managed
Law Applied Statutory (unless rebuked) Common law / Divine Law

🔹 Who Has Jurisdiction Over an Estate?

Unless explicitly rebutted, most governments treat the estate as a decedent legal fiction under public policy. However, when properly rebutted and placed under a Divine Law Trust, the estate becomes:

  • A private contract estate

  • Governed by Divine Law and common law

  • Outside the jurisdiction of statutory “probate courts”

See: VanHorne’s Lessee v. Dorrance (1795); Hale v. Henkel (1906)

🔹 Why Reclaim Control of Your Estate?

Most people unknowingly consent to having their estate held as a public trust, administered by third parties (e.g., the State via Social Security, driver’s license, bank contracts). At USCAP, we help you:

  • Reassert your living natural person status

  • Repatriate your estate to a private jurisdiction

  • Appoint private trustees of your choosing

  • Use your estate as collateral for GDP-driven capital deployment

🔹 USCAP Services for Estate Structuring:

  • Private estate declarations

  • Divine Law Trust establishment

  • Executor and trustee training

  • International private banking for estates

  • Gold-backed token issuance (USCPBGOLD) tied to estate capital

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