SIMPLE, AFFORDABLE STEPS YOU CAN TAKE TO PROTECT WHAT'S YOURS By the time you're named as a defendant in a lawsuit or divorce proceeding, it may be too late to protect your assets. The time to shield the hard-won fruits of your labor is now! Fortunately, protecting your assets can be much easier and far less expensive than you think. In this complete, practical, and easy-to-follow guide, leading tax and estate planning attorney and bestselling author Martin Shenkman presents the steps you can and should take to protect your home, your savings, and other assets from creditors, litigants, and divorce. Shenkman explains the essential concepts of protecting what you own from malpractice claims, lawsuits, and divorce. This book offers step-by-step guidance in determining which asset-protection strategies and techniques are right for you. You'll learn numerous legal and effective methods you can use to: * Protect your personal assets from business and professional claims * Protect your assets and your heirs' assets from divorce * Minimize your risk of lawsuits and other claims against your assets * Create limited partnerships and LLCs to protect your assets * Make your home-based business judgment-proof * Use domestic trusts to protect against lawsuits * Secure real estate and stock holdings against lawsuits

This all new 2nd edition reveals the little known secrets and strategies guaranteed to protect personal and business assets from any financial disaster. This bible of asset protection is packed with hundreds of legal tips on keeping your assets safe from creditors, ex-spouses, bankruptcy and even the IRS. This encyclopedia of techniques and tactics will safeguard your assets under all circumstances.

The proliferation of lawsuits throughout society exposes business owners, physicians, and other professionals to enormous risk if they don't adequately protect their personal and business assets. In The ABA Consumer Guide to Asset Protection, leading asset protection attorney Jeffrey Matsen provides a step-by-step guide to creating a "shield of liability" around personal and business assets through a combination of business and investment entity selections; estate planning techniques; and the creation of appropriate trusts. Matsen's multi-tiered approach is designed to help virtually everyone who has significant assets and to provide a plan appropriate to their particular circumstances. Readers will gain the knowledge to choose the right advisor and actively participate in the creation and management of their own asset protection plan.

A tax-smart guide to keeping more of the wealth you build Three obstacles to wealth-lawsuits, income taxes, and estate taxes-can and will destroy the financial achievements of those who fail to properly safeguard their assets. In this book, attorney and tax strategist J.J. Childers lays out a plan for combating these forces so that anyone willing to learn and apply the secrets of the wealthy can do so in a smart, simple, and effective way. J.J. Childers (Little Rock, AR) is a licensed attorney specializing in wealth structures that reduce taxes and shield assets. He speaks on these topics to thousands of individuals, investors, and small business owners each year. His unique ability to explain complicated strategies in simple terms has made him one of the nation's most sought-after speakers and practitioners on asset-protecting legal structures.

This book cuts through the confusion that pervades today's real estate investor's understanding of asset protection. It provides in-depth, easy to understand analysis of different asset protection entities as they relate to real estate investing.

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Pragmatic Asset Protection is a practical guide for individuals seeking to protect their assets from creditors. The methods discussed fall squarely within the U.S. legal system and do not involve hiding assets offshore or other transparently phony schemes. This publication is the product of the author's extensive experience, including his work for the U.S. government as an expert witness on asset protection, and is especially helpful to those owning multiple real estate properties, professionals (doctors, attorneys, accountants, financial consultants, architects) and individuals engaging in activities that could give rise to large jury verdicts. Robert Sommers defines the leading concepts and how creditors and courts view various aspects of an asset protection plan. He identifies the pitfalls and traps for the unwary and includes common-sense pointers on how to best protect your assets in our litigious society. Citations to case law and other legal precedents are contained in the reference section.