Domestic Asset Protection Trusts

Asset protection planning remains vital for many if not most clients. For the past few years, clients have been hyper-focused on planning for tax changes that have not happened, practitioners should re-focus clients on the importance of…

How can practitioners (CPAs, wealth advisers, attorneys, and insurance consultants) assist clients in the operation and administration of irrevocable trusts?  What preliminary steps might be helpful to take to guide clients on proper trust…

Given the current economy and the uncertainty of today’s political climate, many in the estate planning field have their eyes on Washington, D.C., looking to see if dramatic changes to the current transfer tax structure could be imminent.…

Many have correctly pointed out that the current extremely low interest rates and depressed asset values – along with the high transfer tax exemption – set up, in some ways, an ideal environment for estate tax planning. This presentation…

This article discusses the "special power of appointment trust," designed to provide asset protection while providing a means for the grantor to benefit from the trust property, should the need arise.

This webinar will explain why, with such high temporary estate tax exemptions, Domestic Asset Protection Trusts (“DAPTs”) are a vital planning tool for many clients and how DAPTs can be used to increase the early use of the exemptions.

This presentation will cover primary purposes in creating a foreign or domestic (US) asset protection trust, how to weed out undesirable clients seeking property protection in a manner that may be fraudulent, how attorneys can avoid bar…

In this webinar, we will discuss drafting Domestic Asset Protection Trusts, which are self-settled trusts usually used for asset protection purposes.

In the case of In re Huber, entered May 17, 2013, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Washington (State), on three grounds, held that an Alaska self-settled trust essentially was invalid with respect to claims of…

It seems like an extraordinary event. The gift tax exemption has grown from $30,000 in 1976 to $1 million through the end of 2010 and to $5 million for 2011 and 2012. The GST and estate tax exemptions also grew to $5 million for 2010, 2011…