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Your estate plan should be geared toward accomplishing a number of inter-related goals. One of the most important of those goals is protecting your assets. While you may be aware of some threats to your assets, your assets may also be at risk in ways of which you are unaware. To help keep your assets safe, a Vero Beach asset protection attorney at Kulas Law Group discusses common threats to your … [Read more...] about Are Your Assets Safe?

When most people contemplate the need for a comprehensive estate plan they focus on the disposition of assets after death. While this is certainly a primary function of an estate plan, your comprehensive estate plan should do that – and much more. Specifically, your estate plan should also help protect and grow your assets while you are here. If you do not include sufficient asset protection … [Read more...] about The In-Law Problem — Keeping Assets in the Family

Asset protection is an essential estate planning goal for anyone with a moderate to wealthy estate. Fortunately, there are numerous estate planning tools and strategies that can help protect the assets you have acquired over the course of your lifetime. Many asset protection strategies involve the use of an irrevocable trust. The reason for this is that assets transferred to an irrevocable trust … [Read more...] about What Is a Domestic Asset Protection Trust?

One of your primary goals throughout the course of your life is undoubtedly to acquire sufficient assets to ensure a comfortable retirement with something left over to pass down to future generations. Acquiring assets, however, won’t do you much good if you fail to protect those assets once you have them. Sometimes, threats to your assets are not very obvious. For example, have you ever considered … [Read more...] about How Can the High Cost of Nursing Home Care Threaten My Assets?

Hopefully, you are aware of the need to have a comprehensive estate plan in place. That plan, however, should accomplish more than just directing the distribution of your estate assets after you are gone. In order for you to have any assets left to distribute, for example, you must protect the assets you acquire over the course of your lifetime. To do this, you may benefit from the assistance of … [Read more...] about Why Would I Need an Asset Protection Lawyer?

Estate planning in the 21st century can be a complex, and complicated, endeavor. Often, the reason for the increased complexity of proper estate planning is due to the fact that divorce and remarriage are commonplace. Consequently, it is often necessary to protect and provide for a current spouse as well as for children from a previous relationship. Unfortunately, many parents are unaware of the … [Read more...] about Port St. Lucie Asset Protection Lawyer Urges Parents to Protect Children from a Previous Marriage