Asset Protection Concepts and Strategies for Protecting Your Wealth [Hardcover]

Strategies that are effectiveand legal for putting onesassets safely out of reach

In todays increasingly litigious world, theshielding of assets has become a prominentissue for financial planners, business owners,and high-net-worth individuals.Asset Protectiondetails methods that are both legallyand morally legitimate for protecting onesassets from creditors, lawsuits, and scams.

Bringing economic common sense and legitimacyto an area that is drowning in gimmickry, two of todays toplawyers examine the fundamental issues inthis growing area, avoiding dense legaleseto make the book accessible to anyone. Asset Protection covers everything readerswant to know about:

• Establishing an effective assetprotection program
• Todays most popular, establishedstrategies
• Newer strategies that are still beingresolved by the courts

A practitioner's guide to today's most effective asset protection strategies

Shielding assets isn't easy to do in our increasingly litigious society. Yet all too often, business owners and high-net-worth individuals find it more difficult to protect their financial interests from unregulated asset protection planners than from the courts--and find themselves losing heavily to both.

Asset Protectiondetails today's most successful, legitimate, and court-proven strategies for protecting one's assets. Taking a unique, all-encompassing approach that minimizes complex legalese to focus on easy-to-understand, effective asset-shielding practices and techniques, this timely book discusses:

• The goals of asset protection, along with steps for implementing an effective asset protection program
• Traditional as well as new techniques--what they are, how they work, when and how to use them
• The vital relationship between asset protection and financial planning, and how to design one umbrella program to address both

Asset Protectiondelivers a welcome dose of col£