If you are a professional, entrepreneur, investor, or family steward with meaningful personal assets, a well‑crafted Domestic Asset Protection ...

Divorce is a major financial risk. Early offshore asset protection can preserve wealth before courts, costs, and forced ...

Question: I understand that when you set up a trust, the assets that are in the name of the trust are protected from lawsuits and creditors. If this is so, it seems like that in today’s litigious ...

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 ...

The Spousal Limited Access Trust (SLAT) is mostly used to transfer assets out of the donor’s taxable estate yet provide “limited” access to the donor’s spouse and other beneficiaries. Not just for the ...

For restaurant owners, protecting business and personal assets from lawsuits, creditors, and financial risks is essential. One of the most effective legal strategies is using trusts to shield wealth ...

The death of the offshore asset protection trust has, by some, been greatly exaggerated. 1 In recent years, attacks on a few such trusts under extreme circumstances have resulted in the incarceration ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

An important gap in many financial plans is the failure to review with an estate planner the potential risks to losing assets and the ways available to protect those assets. The risk to estate leakage ...

Trusts are an essential financial planning tool that CPAs should consider for clients with even a modest amount of wealth. By having a thorough understanding of common uses for trusts, practitioners ...

Navigating the labyrinth of asset protection can be daunting. HR is not just a bystander but a vital educator in safeguarding an employee's hard-earned wealth. This narrative often orbits around two ...

For over 30 years, the Cook Islands has been the gold standard for asset protection trusts. This remote South Pacific nation offers ironclad protection for wealth and investments that is simply ...