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 your assets is crucial when drawing up an estate plan. An asset protection trust can help you keep your assets from creditors, lawsuits and even divorce claims and civil actions. If you’re ...

Editor’s note: This is part five of an ongoing series about using trusts and LLCs in estate planning, asset protection and tax planning. The effectiveness of these powerful tools — especially for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some are quick to dismiss asset protection trust planning as too complex or unnecessary. For those not in a "certain tax bracket," this type of planning may seem like an over-reach by an estate ...