Asset protection planning involves analyzing a client’s liability exposure and implementing appropriate strategies to protect the client’s financial security. Such planning becomes all the more important for elderly clients who are no longer creating wealth and would have less time to reacquire wealth if their assets were subject to a catastrophic claim. The elderly client’s assets may be depleted or seriously eroded if they are available for the payment of claims of creditors and liability judgments. Liabilities may arise as the result of divorce, debts, or lawsuits associated with the ownership of property. Older clients with more diverse assets and a higher net worth may be subject to a higher degree of risk. Clients who might typically fall into this category would include:
Individuals who are particularly vulnerable to liability suits due to their profession.
Business owners who operate as sole proprietors, in a partnership, or who conduct business in their corporations or limited liability companies in such a manner that the corporate veil could be pierced.
Individuals who serve as corporate officers or directors and could be help personally responsible to the shareholders and certain creditors, or who could be held accountable by the regulatory agencies.
Individuals who have sold their business and who are concerned about subsequent buyer claims.
A spouse with separate assets who wants to protect those assets in the event o f a divorce of from the creditors of the other spouse.
Individuals who are particularly vulnerable to liability suits due to their profession.
Business owners who operate as sole proprietors, in a partnership, or who conduct business in their corporations or limited liability companies in such a manner that the corporate veil could be pierced.
Individuals who serve as corporate officers or directors and could be help personally responsible to the shareholders and certain creditors, or who could be held accountable by the regulatory agencies.
Individuals who have sold their business and who are concerned about subsequent buyer claims.
A spouse with separate assets who wants to protect those assets in the event o f a divorce of from the creditors of the other spouse.