With the escalating costs of long-term care, seniors are increasingly recognizing the importance of protecting their assets. A Trust is a core part of an asset protection plan, but one that requires ...

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 ...

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 ...

Long-term care costs like nursing home care can quickly drain retirement savings. Medicare provides little help paying these bills, but Medicaid can cover nursing home costs for those who meet strict ...

Editor’s note: This is part 16 — and the final article — of a series about the fundamental principles of using trusts and ...

It might be said that the purpose of asset protection planning is to take some chips off the table when times are good, and make the rest of the chips difficult for creditors to get at when times are ...

Asset protection is the utilization of laws and legal entities (such as trusts, limited partnerships and limited liability companies) which safeguard assets from attack by future, unsecured creditors.

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 celebrities and other public-facing individuals, public property ownership creates risks beyond civil liability. Property ...

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 ...