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Asset Protection Planning, Part 1 of 4

Copyright (c) 2009 Jeffrey Matsen

I. Introduction

Asset protection planning has been practiced by Lawyers, financial planners and accountants for several decades. Business people have always worried about the exposure of their personal assets for claims had against the business. The corporate form of business entity with limited liability shield is called upon for centuries. Certainly, a protective hand over the assets of the multitude of risks in business and personal financial planning is not a novel idea or planning objective.

expanded since the 1970s Theories of liability and the proliferation of disputes have been a greater emphasis on asset protection planning to the extent that it has become a recognized area of practice. Certainly falls within the definition of life, estate planning, including the protection and preservation of accumulated wealth or asset base.

There really is no body of legally recognized called asset protection. Indeed, it is a multidisciplinary practice includes area real estate and tax planning, debtor-creditor Bankruptcy law and practice, judgments and appeals, business and business structure, contracts and commercial law. A better name for asset protection planning may risk management planning. Risk management seeks to protect and shield a client from all the different types of risks that can occur, the customer, whether business or are non-business related.

II transport Fraudulent Law

A. Overview

The process of planning for Property protection and risk management involves the marshaling of its assets together in order to protect them from loss or dilution of potential risk and claims, which they are otherwise subject. One of the biggest obstacles or barriers an individual faces with respect to implementation of a legally effective risk management plan is the fraudulent conveyance law. Fraudulent transport containers must be made (or suspected) with the intent to delay or defraud Creditors. Normally, fraudulent conveyances are by a lack of fair and valuable consideration and / or the attempt by debtors to their property outside the Reach of creditors instead. In California, the law of fraudulent conveyances found in the Uniform Fraudulent Transferred Act ("Unif") as defined in Civil Code § § 3439.01 to 3439.12.

Basically, a transfer or an obligation incurred by a debtor is in fact fraudulent as a creditor if the creditor's claim was before or after the transfer or obligation is incurred if the debtor transfers incurred or the obligation incurred with actual intent to hinder or delay, or defraud any creditor of the debtor. A claim is a claim to severance pay Judgement on whether the right is reduced, liquidated, unliquidated firm, contingent, matured, un-ripened disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured or unsecured. A transfer is any discharge or leave of an asset or an interest in any asset, whether direct or indirect, absolute or conditional, voluntary or involuntary, and includes the payment of money, a release that a lease agreement and the creation of a lien or other encumbrance. Although most cases involve the transfer of assets, California, the law fraudulent conveyance created with equal force to the obligations of the debtor.

A creditor must not necessarily a sentence or a matured claim against the debtor to enforce the remedies of Unif. The relationship of debtor and creditor arises in cases of unauthorized Action at the moment, that a cause of action accrues.

To determine whether transfers to impede the person's intentions were to delay, or defraud Creditors, the focus on the investigation of the debtor's state of mind. The court concludes often fraudulent intent from the circumstances surrounding the transfer, taking into account the so-called "badges of fraud". These badges of fraud are: 1 A transfer or obligation to an insider, 2nd Concealment of the transfer or obligation; 3rd The debtor retaining possession or control of property; 4 Transfer of substantially all assets of the debtor; 5 The debtor received inadequate consideration for the the transaction; 6 The insolvency of the debtor before or shortly after the transaction; 7 The emergence of the significant debt just before or after the transfer; 8th Pending litigation or threatened litigation against the debtor; 9 Transfer of substantial assets of the debtor's business to a lienor who then to an insider of the debtor; and 10 The debtor absconding with his / her property.

Once these badges of fraud are established, then the burden shifts to the buyer at a legitimate purpose for the transfers to give. California seems to say, however, that the existence of badges of fraud does not create a presumption of fraud, but provides evidence can be drawn from those on the existence of fraudulent intent.

B. Transfers

The fraudulent transfer law is in first place in humans, the gifts to other persons or entities to make in order to try to avoid their creditors. In order to avoid fraudulent transfers for, should all transactions for fair value. In addition, the transfer have economic substance.

Transfers to trusts are extremely suspect because they are not for fair value and are often not even no economic substance. However, transfers are limited partnerships and corporations "For the value." It is much more difficult to pay a limited partnership or corporation power than the debtor carries out itself.

III. Marital status Planning

Prenuptial agreements and marital property agreements can be used effectively for risk management. In California, a spouse may their separate or Community property by written agreement expressly delegated to present the intention to transmute the property of the other spouse as his or her separate property. This transfer can be either permanently or in trust. This process is important because a creditor of a debtor get married, not only can the separation of property, that the debtor but to the community property of the debtor and his spouse. On the other hand, the creditor can not reach the other spouse separation of property other than arising in the amount of debt for the necessities of life. Accordingly, a very basic risk management is to try planning tool, separate property to assigned to a spouse with the least risk. Care must be taken into account in evaluating and implementing the strategy, however, because the fraudulent transfer force Law marital property agreements, including those entered into in a formal dissolution of marriage proceedings.

IV use of trusts in Risk Management Planning

A. Traditional Domestic Trusts

Trusts can be the benefits of asset protection tools. But many are confident that created for estate planning purposes are not properly structured, provide for protection from creditors. The typical revocable living trust where the settlor, beneficiaries life and retain the power to revoke, modify, and invade the principal of the trust offers no protection against the creditors of the settlor. Certain spendthrift trusts may provide protection for risk management purposes. It must be considered in the design and preparation of these trusts, however, in order for the real estate and income tax Consequences into account as well as for asset protection planning.

B. Domestic Asset Protection Trust

As already mentioned, most will even care trusts not protected from creditors. But recently, several states have different degrees of trust provided the asset protection laws for a self-settled. The laws of this trust in Alaska, Delaware, Nevada, Utah and Rhode Iceland are similar in many respects to the asset protection trust legislation found in several offshore jurisdictions. It should be noted that the courts have not had the opportunity to pass muster on this type of legislation because of his recent production, and because the statute of limitations in most cases has expired. Depending on the timeline with regard to when the claim arose, these trusts can be and should be tested in an appropriate manner are involved in circumstances, but only by a lawyer who understands all the ramifications.

About the Author

Jeffrey R. Matsen helps his clients structure their business and personal assets in the best way possible to preserve, protect, and transfer them in the most efficient and tax saving manner. For further information go to => http://www.wealthstrategiescounsel.com

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