@cmoore5026 wrote:
Does this mean if this trust does not meet either of the above 2 bullet points (it's not a foreign trust and it was created after 1984), that Schedule J need not be prepared?
Yes, that is what that means; the schedule is used to report accumulation distributions for certain trusts (i.e., trusts subject to the throwback rules).
Refer also to the instructions at the link below.
See https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f4970.pdf