What Is an Asset Protection Trust? An asset protection trust is an irrevocable trust used to protect your assets from creditors, unjust lawsuits, and court decisions. Typically, they are funded with ...

Control and protection are always the key tradeoffs in irrevocable trusts. Despite what a company marketing a “special” trust may say, the more control that a trust maker keeps over an irrevocable ...

Asset protection planning is where a person takes steps to disassociate themselves from their current assets so that they are no longer available to creditors. Although asset protection planning as a ...

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 ...