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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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., ...

The reality of practicing medicine in 2026 is that potential liability exists in every specialty — and that, periodically, ...

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 ...

Revocable living trusts are often the core estate planning vehicle for the basic estate plan. Generally, revocable living trusts are touted as an incredibly versatile estate planning tool, which ...

Trust-based property schemes, also known as ‘family protection trusts’ or ‘asset protection trusts’, are often promoted as a ...

“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” ...

Business planning should always consider asset protection, both for the owners and the business itself. Asset protection for the business should take into consideration protecting the operating assets ...

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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 ...