Protecting assets against loss is a common goal of estate planning. Asset protection trusts come in many different forms and can be used to protect property for the use and benefit of clients as well ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Offshore trusts can be a smart and secure way of protecting your assets and safeguarding your wealth against potential creditors and legal claims. For many Americans over age 50, building and ...

When creating an estate plan, many people write a will. But a will won’t provide the same protection as setting up a trust. Unlike wills, trusts offer control and protection for those who hold assets ...

Delegated trusts are legal arrangements that allow a third party, known as the trustee, to hold and manage assets on behalf of the grantor (the person who creates the trust) for the benefit of one or ...

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Learn how trust funds work, their benefits, and the differences between revocable and irrevocable funds. Understand how they ...

Consider that most estate plans include some level of asset protection by their nature, even when a client may not specifically be focused on asset protection planning strategies. Recognize that a ...

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 ...