Trust systems compared

This page compares every trust-related system currently represented in Trusts GUI. They are not all the same kind of thing: some are drafting systems, some are research or filing libraries, and some are narratives that do not supply a usable trust instrument at all.

Working rule. An irrevocable, non-grantor, discretionary spendthrift trust can be a legitimate estate-planning, succession, retirement, special-needs, or asset-protection structure. Its legal and tax results depend on the actual instrument, funding, retained control, administration, distributions, situs, and filings. The narrower claim that assigning income to corpus removes it from current federal taxation was challenged in IRS Chief Counsel Memorandum AM 2023-006. That does not make every trust using similar drafting features invalid or unlawful.

At a glance

System or source	What it actually supplies	Buildable trust instrument?	Center of gravity	Trusts GUI treatment
Mainstream state-law baseline	Statutes, cases, fiduciary rules, tax law, and professionally drafted instruments	Yes	Settlor intent, funded property, fiduciary administration, beneficiary rights, creditor and tax consequences	The legal baseline used by the statute catalog and builder caveats
Master's / Red River / Jimron / GEP / MBAT family	Commercial binders and related copyrighted-form marketing for an irrevocable non-grantor complex discretionary spendthrift trust	Yes, if the complete purchased instrument is used and properly administered	Spendthrift drafting, a third-party oversight office, and often an IRC §643 corpus theory	One vendor family, with individual provenance preserved; builder uses original language rather than copied vendor text
SEDM	A very large religious-ministry, status, tax, affidavit, and administrative-process library	Partly; more a rules-and-forms corpus than a single trust product	Citizenship/status, public-office and franchise theories, administrative exhaustion	Catalog and research source; claims are labeled individually rather than adopted wholesale
Amnesty Coalition	A small, informal set of novation, status, UCC, passport, and private-ministry-trust documents	Partly	Contract/novation, redemption, status declarations, ministry framing	Catalog source with risk notes on high-consequence filings
You Are Law	Public articles plus member materials centered on common-law contract, beneficiary status, subrogation, and private trusts	Yes, in its member materials	Expressing the trust by private contract and changing the actor's claimed legal capacity	Public catalog metadata; private copies are never shipped in the hosted application
satcomm911 / Blue Ridge	Promotional material for a “Pure Contract Trust” and related sovereignty concepts	Not from the public material reviewed	Contract-only/private-law framing and tax claims	Comparative lead, not a verified template source
Wisconsin Assembly / Anna Von Reitz	Notices, declarations, assembly paperwork, and historical/legal narratives	Some trust-adjacent paperwork, but not a general-purpose trust drafting system	Political status, assemblies, public-law narratives, and global-account claims	Catalog source; narrative documents are separated from operative instruments
D'Avila Family Trust narrative	A story about global collateral accounts and a purported historical mega-trust	No	Historical/global-accounts narrative	Research subject only; not presented as a drafting model

The commercial spendthrift vendor family

The names Master's, Red River, Jimron, GEP, and MBAT should not be treated as five unrelated doctrines. Public records place them in one commercial form family:

Name	Publicly observable role	Relationship evidence
Master's Spendthrift Trust / Master's Trust	Originating commercial form line	Copyright claimant and plaintiff in the federal copyright cases
Red River Spendthrift Trust	Arlington, Texas distribution/vendor line associated with James Blakeman	Named defendant in Master's Spendthrift Trust v. Red River Trust
JimRon Spendthrift Trust	Related entity in the same litigation	Co-defendant; U.S. Copyright Office recordation V9918D323 records a Master's-to-Jimron assignment
GEP / Global Estate Planning	Marketing/distribution channel	Uses materially similar product description and §643-centered sales language
MBAT / Master's Business Alliance Trust	Business-oriented sibling channel	Publishes reports describing the same non-grantor, complex, discretionary, spendthrift architecture

The copyright suits were dismissed without a merits decision. They prove a commercial and document relationship; they do not establish that every clause is invalid, that the defendants infringed, or that every trust created from the forms receives the same tax treatment. See the dedicated origin and legal-history report.

Architecture crosswalk

Question	Mainstream baseline	Vendor family	SEDM	Amnesty	You Are Law	Assembly / D'Avila narrative
What creates the trust?	Manifested intent plus identifiable property, trustee duties, and beneficiaries or a permitted purpose	Executed commercial instrument and conveyed corpus	Ministry agreements, declarations, and related instruments, depending on the item	Private-ministry or certificate forms plus declarations	Express private contract and transferred property	Varies; the D'Avila narrative does not provide an operative instrument
Governing law	Chosen state law subject to mandatory rules and sufficient connections	Often marketed as nationally uniform, but state mandatory law still matters	Frequently emphasizes common law and religious/private ordering	Contract, ministry, UCC, and status framing	Common-law right of contract	Political/common-law narrative
Who controls?	Trustee, constrained by fiduciary duties and the instrument; reserved settlor powers matter	Trustee plus a “Compliance Overseer” or similar office in many versions	Varies by ministry or form	Named private actors and powers of attorney	Trustee and contract-defined offices	Often unclear or narrative-only
Creditor protection	Depends on spendthrift terms, settlor/beneficiary identity, transfers, exceptions, and situs	Strong protection is advertised; actual result remains fact-specific	Often asserted through status/private-law theories	Often asserted through private/ministry status	Often asserted through contract and beneficiary capacity	Not reliably testable without an instrument and funded corpus
Tax posture	Grantor or non-grantor rules, DNI, distributions, entity classification, and actual administration control	Commonly marketed with a §643 corpus allocation; many real trustees instead file and pay under ordinary trust-tax rules	Status and “trade or business/public office” theories are prominent	Redemption, entity, and ministry theories are prominent	Private-contract and beneficiary theories	Claims vary; narrative alone produces no tax result
Best evidence	Signed instrument, schedules, title records, books, returns, orders, and statutes	Purchased binder, executed instance, copyright and court records, and actual tax administration	Numbered source documents and cited authorities	The original editable forms and flowcharts	Original member documents and executed instruments	Primary notices, recorded documents, and any independently verifiable public records

Where the systems overlap

Paper changes only what law permits it to change. All of the systems put heavy weight on declarations, certificates, notices, or agreements. A signed paper can be important evidence, but it cannot by itself erase mandatory tax, creditor, criminal, family-support, or public-record rules.
Funding and administration are decisive. A trust name and declaration without conveyed property are not equivalent to a funded trust. Continued personal-pocketbook use can defeat intended separation even when the document is elaborate.
Control matters more than labels. “Irrevocable,” “non-grantor,” “pure,” “private,” and “constitutional” are conclusions to test against retained powers and real conduct.
The sources use similar workflows. Assemble, execute, notarize where appropriate, convey property, serve or record, keep books, respond to agencies, and preserve evidence. That shared lifecycle is what the filing tracker models.

What Trusts GUI does—and does not do

The catalog preserves source identity so a SEDM affidavit is not confused with an Amnesty form or a commercial trust binder.
The builder drafts original, conventional clauses for an irrevocable non-grantor discretionary spendthrift structure. It does not reproduce a vendor's copyrighted text or promise a tax outcome.
Research pages distinguish an actual instrument from marketing, a certificate, an accounting fund, and a historical narrative.
Risk notes attach to a particular claim or filing use. They are not blanket judgments about every trust sharing a label.