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 ...

Planning for long-term care is a crucial but often overlooked part of estate planning. Determining who will care for you and how that care will be paid for can be an uncomfortable conversation, yet it ...

Asset protection planning is where a person takes steps to disassociate themselves from their current assets so that they are no longer available to creditors. Although asset protection planning as a ...

I've written before about the individual power of tools like deferred sales trusts, asset protection trusts, limited ...

Jeffrey M. Verdon is a partner and chair of the Asset Protection Practice Group at Falcon Rappaport & Berkman LLP, a full-service law firm based in New York and working from the Newport Beach, Calif., ...

Asset protection is its own form of legal planning—one that incorporates the other types of legal planning, as well as fields such as risk management. Business owners engage in asset protection ...

“Never let a creditor get to your asset, no matter how bad your mistake.” Upon this ideal, former Texas billionaire, Sam Wyly, and his now deceased brother, Charles, created an “enormously complex” ...

Daniel L. Daniels, David T. Leibell and Russ Alan Prince As anyone who rides public transportation or watches late-night TV can attest, our society is a litigious one. We've all seen the ads: “Have ...

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Elder Law Guidance has opened a new office in London, Kentucky, expanding access to elder law and asset protection ...

SYRACUSE, NY – Central New York families face growing financial risks from lawsuits, creditor claims, and the rising cost of long-term nursing care, yet many have no legal safeguards in place to ...

Consider that most estate plans include some level of asset protection by their nature, even when a client may not specifically be focused on asset protection planning strategies. Recognize that a ...