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Disclaimer Trust: A kind of bypass trust that gives the surviving spouse the option of not splitting the trust after the first spouse's death if it's not necessary to save on estate tax. A surviving spouse may disclaim (decline to accept) some trust property; that property goes into the bypass trust.

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