Beginning in 2001, Reed engaged in extensive asset protection planning (if it can be called that) for Cohen.
In other words, if asset protection planning is not planning against future unknown creditors, then what is it?
Here is where it gets interesting from an asset protection planning perspective.
The upshot of this conclusion is that in asset protection planning, one should try to avoid transfers to insiders (broadly defined) whenever possible.
For what it is worth, your writer and his law firm only very rarely use self-settled trusts of any kind for asset protection planning.
Whatever is done for asset protection planning needs to do more than merely recite these words, but must reasonably work to accomplish these goals.
Charitable giving can be protected by asset protection planning in advance of claims, which creates a trust for the benefit of the Church or charity.
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From an asset protection planning viewpoint, this practice is remarkably stupid.
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Where one occasionally sees this in asset protection planning is where a high-risk professional transfers assets to a spouse against the possibility of a negligence lawsuit.
Attempting to cheat spouses out of their share of the marital estate is not a proper part of asset protection planning, either, and is wholly reprehensible conduct.
As happens every so often in asset protection planning, this theory has gone around so much that it is beginning to be accepted as gospel by some planners.
The first point that should be made here is that the Debtor engaged in nothing like asset protection planning, but instead just in good old fraud on the creditor.
As we have seen in case after case after case, debtors who have engaged in either misconduct or in asset protection planning tend to fare very poorly in bankruptcy.
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The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, for instance, certifies candidates who successfully pass extensive exams on topics including asset protection planning, taxes, insurance, estate planning and retirement.
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But the point is that when one is evaluating a client for asset protection planning, a determination must be made whether the client has any known claims or not.
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In addition, our New York Special Needs Trust attorneys can assist clients with long-term care and asset preservation and protection planning for loved ones with disabilities that need around-the-clock care.
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Asset protection planning is all about taking chips off the table in good times, so that you still can walk away from the table a winner no matter what happens in bad times.
Even ordinary asset protection planning is difficult, however.
Asset protection should only be done by a professional who is skilled in the area, and those who rely on financial planners or other non-attorneys for asset protection planning are likely to be sadly disappointed.
Here, we apply my tried and true rule-of-thumb for advanced trust structures that are used for estate and asset protection planning: The more impressively a structure is named, the less likely it is to work.
Asset-protection planning isn't a replacement for insurance.
There is a false mystique to asset protection planning that has often allowed planners to charge premium prices for selling cutting-edge strategies to their clients at premium prices, when boring and inexpensive solutions probably would have worked better.
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Clients can negligently or intentionally mislead their planners about what assets they have when they commence their planning, but much more often they just lie outright about the liabilities they are facing when they seek asset protection planning.
Taking this opinion at face value, the lesson here is simple and commonsensical but is one that is often ignored by planners: Asset protection planning should rarely be undertaken in its own name or for that stated purpose.
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All factors that can be influenced by planning, protection, and prevention efforts.
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About the only place that one can safely mention that planning is being done for asset protection reasons in in the area of exemption planning, since exemptions by their very nature are meant to defeat the rights of creditors.
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