Barry Engel covers important developments in the asset protection planning arena, such as new asset protection trust enactments; amendments to current asset protection trust enactments; recent case law involving challenges to trusts and involving settlors charged with contempt of court; developments involving the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) under the HIRE Act; the recently enacted tax treaty between the United States and Switzerland; recent federal tax amnesty program efforts; an update on federal tax developments of relevance, including the 2010 Tax Relief Act; and statutory changes and case law involving domestic and foreign limited liability companies and charging order protection.