As a financial advisor, you will have clients who are doctors, lawyers, accountants, or real estate agents. There are the top four professions that attract lawsuits when they make costly mistakes. If ...

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What Is an Asset Protection Trust? An asset protection trust is an irrevocable trust used to protect your assets from creditors, unjust lawsuits, and court decisions. Typically, they are funded with ...

Asset protection planning is where a person takes steps to disassociate themselves from their current assets so that they are no longer available to creditors. Although asset protection planning as a ...

Asset protection trusts — both offshore and domestic — can be highly effective vehicles for protecting your wealth in today’s litigious society. But these trusts can be complex and expensive, so ...

Real estate investors and developers understand and embrace risk but do not always judge it well. When the market is hot, many developers, investors and owners sign personal guarantees. Now that the ...

Affluent families and high-net-worth individuals have been using asset protection planning since the mid-1980s. Well, guess what? Businesses get sued, too. Yet, when you ask those in the C suite what ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about charitable giving and estate planning ideas. A Delaware court (by the Magistrate in Chancery) recently upheld the ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. It’s no secret that we live in a litigious world, but no ...

A domestic asset-protection trust (DAPT) is an irrevocable self-settled trust in which the grantor is designated a permissible beneficiary and allowed access to the funds in the trust account. If the ...