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