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Click here to find out moreWith the increasing popularity of asset protection/integrated estate planning, recent legislation and court decisions have focused on what planning strategies are effective in today’s legal environment. In this program, Edward D. Brown explores these current developments. Topics include: (1) states enhancing the available protection of assets; (2) case law applying “public policy” arguments to trump protection designs; (3) courts of equity ruling to grant financial remedies to creditors where legal remedies are insufficient to reach the desired result by the court; (4) broad based rulings that suggest having “asset protection” as a goal creates a “per se” fraudulent transfer; (5) rising interest by clients in choosing offshore laws for better protection of children’s future inheritances in fear that the US legal system is trending toward the erosion of “established” protection-related legal concepts; (6) the application of alter ego, nominee, sham, and other theories to justify piercing asset protection trusts; and (7) whether the perception of erosion is accurate or just a continuing refinement of the law. Mr. Brown also discusses how to best avoid any trends of erosion to the extent that they overshadow the countering protective enhancements developing on parallel fronts.
