As a financial advisor, you will have clients who are doctors, lawyers, accountants, or real estate agents. There are the top four professions that attract lawsuits when they make costly mistakes. If ...

Donlevy-Rosen & Rosen, P.A., a Coral Gables-based law firm focused on wealth preservation through legal structuring, ...

If you’re like most people, you worked hard all your life, raised a family, and provided a leg-up for your children. But now that you need care, the cost is going to wipe out your family’s assets in ...

Planning for long-term care is a crucial but often overlooked part of estate planning. Determining who will care for you and how that care will be paid for can be an uncomfortable conversation, yet it ...

One of the most poorly understood concepts in asset protection planning is that of the very important role played by liability insurance in such planning. In a great many cases that do not make their ...

Asset protection isn’t a magic bullet. Our goal is often to discourage the creditor—make it difficult and expensive to collect on a judgment against our client. There’s always the risk that a creditor ...

Trusts offer many significant benefits for estate planning, including asset protection and efficient wealth transfer. As the leading authority on tax management and wealth generation, Tom Wheelwright ...

Let’s work off of this premise: an estate planner’s job is to help a client pass their value and values to the following generations to the fullest extent possible, addressing as many of the obstacles ...

Over the past few decades much has been written about the benefits of engaging in asset protection planning to protect one’s legacy from future unknown, unforeseen lawsuits and other third-party ...

Real estate investors and developers understand and embrace risk but do not always judge it well. When the market is hot, many developers, investors and owners sign personal guarantees. Now that the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about charitable giving and estate planning ideas. A Delaware court (by the Magistrate in Chancery) recently upheld the ...

Economic downturns put client assets at risk as market declines, business stress, and job losses can reduce portfolio values. During these times, advisors need to come up with practical steps to help ...