You must look to the trust for your answer. A trust document contains all the provisions necessary for the management of the trust by the trustee. There should be provisions for the sale of assets by the trustee. Those provisions must be followed.
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The IRS can seize an irrevocable trust if the trust owes unpaid taxes and the assets within the trust are considered part of the taxpayer's overall assets.
No. You cannot maintain any control over the assets in a irrevocable trust. Doing so will cause the trust to fail and leave you exposed to creditors and taxes.
In regards to finance the term irrevocable trust refers to trust that can not be changed or ended without permission of the beneficiary. The grantor removes all of his or her rights to both assets and the trust.
The grantors of an irrevocable trust can take out life insurance on themselves and put it (term or whole life insurance) in the trust in order to pay the estate taxes on their estate assets when they die. This allows the grantor (giver of assets) to leave his estate assets to his children or someone else (beneficiaries) without them having to pay estate tax, or death tax as some call it.
Real property must be transferred by deed to the trustee of the trust. A deed to a trust should state the grantee as "Elvis Presley, trustee of the Graceland Realty Trust Under a Declaration of Trust Dated January 1, 1959". Accounts must be opened in the name of the trust (the bank will assist you) then your assets would be deposited in those accounts.