When I was a freshly-minted real estate attorney (my firm now employs over 400 people in four states), I was all about the asset protection and the tax savings. I would give my clients great ...

Asset protection isn’t a magic bullet. Our goal is often to discourage the creditor—make it difficult and expensive to collect on a judgment against our client. There’s always the risk that a creditor ...

Revocable living trusts are often the core estate planning vehicle for the basic estate plan. Generally, revocable living trusts are touted as an incredibly versatile estate planning tool, which ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This is part five of an ongoing series about using trusts and LLCs in estate planning, asset protection and tax planning. The effectiveness of these powerful tools — especially for ...

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 ...