Protecting Your Assets

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Author: Shenkman

ISBN-10: 0471430579

ISBN-13: 9780471430575

Category: Estate Planning

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...

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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

PART I. INTRODUCTIONChapter 1. Introduction to Asset Protection PlanningChapter 2. Basic Rules to Protect Asset Against Lawsuits and DivorceChapter 3. Rules for How to Own (Title) Your Assets to Maximize SafetyPART II. DIVORCE PROTECTION RULESChapter 4. How to Protect Yourself Against DivorceChapter 5. How to Protect Your Heirs Assets from DivorcePART III. GENERAL LAWSUIT PROTECTION RULESChapter 6. Rules to Live Smart and SafeChapter 7. Insurance Rules are a Key to AssetChapter 8. Fraudulent Conveyance ARules can Undermine Your Lawsuit ProtectionChapter 9. Miscellaneous Asset Protection RulesPART IV. RULES TO PROTECT YOUR BUSINESS, REAL ESTATE AND INVESTMENTS AGAINST LAWSUITSChapter 10. Limited Partnerships and Asset Protection PlanningChapter 11. Limited Liability Comapnies ("LLCs" and Asset Protection PlanningChapter 12. Rules on Using Corporations to Protect AssetsChapter 13. Other Business Asset Protection TechniquesPART V. RULES FOR USING TRUSTS TO PROTECT AGAINST LAWSUTS AND DIVORCEChapter 14. What are Trusts and How can they Help You Protect AssetsChapter 15. Rules for Using Trusts to Protect Against DivorceChapter 16. General Rules for Using Domestic Trusts to Protect Against LawsuitsChapter 17. Domestic Self Settled Asset Protection Trust RulesChapter 18. Foreign Trust Lawsuit and Divorce Protection Rules.