When you think about setting up a trust, the first thing that comes to mind is a plan for how wealth will be passed down after you die. But there is also an asset protection trust, which protects your ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Millionaires face distinct financial challenges that require specialized strategies beyond basic money management. Financial planning for millionaires encompasses investment portfolio diversification, ...

For years, asset protection was sold as secrecy: move assets offshore and hope no one notices. Now, new mathmatical protections are beating asset-hiding.

Read on to learn about the different types of asset protection trusts and how to set one up. What Is an Asset Protection Trust (APT)? An asset protection trust protects your assets from creditors and ...

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 ...