Wealthy international families are choosing U.S. situs trusts over the typical offshore trust jurisdictions. In choosing a trust jurisdiction, the extremely wealthy seek the best security, most privacy, best income, lowest taxes, and lowest costs. While the extremely wealthy often utilize these trust structures, they are in no way limited to the extremely wealthy and are often used by high-net-worth individuals (i.e., more than a million in assets). For many, it is also important to diversify their asset holdings outside their country of residence. Powerful trust laws, tax savings, asset protection and privacy, as well as solutions to political and regulatory concerns, all combine to make the U.S. the trust situs of choice.