I am starting this blog with the idea of promoting Asset Protection Planning from a business-down perspective. Many who claim to be Asset Protection attorneys are often long in estate planning experience, but light in experience in entity selection, formation, tax and complex business transactional planning. From my viewpoint, asset protection planning goes far beyond determining how to transfer ones wealth efficiently from one generation to another; it is an integrated science and practice of building and preserving wealth. It also encompasses the adoption of strategies to level the litigation playing field by not only adopting tactics to avoind and prevent the loss of wealth in litigation, but also to encourage and provide an incentive for early and cheap settlement of litigation if litigation avoidance is not possible.
With those goals in mind I will discuss the use of integrated business and estate as a means for adopting and using cutting edge asset protection planning techniques to preserve wealth.
