Whether you are an advisor looking for the best help for your clients or a successful individual doing your own due diligence, knowing the right questions to ask to qualify a so called “asset protection” expert is more important than ever before. Failing to do so and working with amateurs, or worse, non-attorney promoters can not only cause […]
When An Estate Plan Isn’t Asset Protection
In a previous post I shared the details of the incomplete (if not financially fatal) advice one physician got from a source with questionable experience. That advice involved some common misconceptions among lay people and advisors about very basic legal and risk management concepts. Understand the REAL Role of Your Estate Planning For the most successful and/or […]
Are Changes To Trump’s Trust an Asset Protection FAIL?
Donald Trump’s creditors and those currently involved in lawsuits against him may be celebrating. Trump was in the news again this morning for changes made to the trust that holds and controls his business interests. According to new reports, changes were made to Trump’s trust in February, shortly after the inauguration. Based on news reports […]
IRA Creditor Protection Issues – Asset Protection
Although IRA asset protection is provided by law to most personally owned and funded IRA accounts there are several other important asset-protection issues doctors, business owners, and other successful individuals need to consider. The (very) general rules of thumb about IRAs: For the purposes of brevity in the context of this column, in most cases, your […]
Urgent Care Centers: Asset Protection for Doctors, Owners
Asset Protection attorney Ike Devji was heavily featured in a recent article in The Ambulatory M&A Advisor titled “Asset Protection for Your Urgent Care Business” by Brittany Belli. Devji works with physicians nationwide and is a frequent CME presenter for medical groups on issues including asset protection, wealth preservation and the specific risk management techniques, that […]
New Asset Protection Book Features Attorney Ike Devji
Phoenix, AZ May 19, 2015 Author Michele Williams’ new book , “Asset Protection For The Rest Of Us” seeks to share the information that high net worth individuals and their advisors have and most of middle class America does not. Williams examines some key basic concepts and aims to help her readers keep what they […]
Asset Protection Attorney Ike Devji Featured In Wall St. Journal
Phoenix, Arizona. Asset Protection attorney Ike Devji was recently featured in a Wall Street Journal story about Offshore Asset Protection Trusts by Norb Vonnegut. “It was pleasure to be part of Norb’s story, especially since he took the time to ask the right questions and do his homework, most reporters focus only on the sensational […]
Is Using Offshore Trusts for Asset Protection Still a Good Idea?
There are many specific methods for implementing Asset Protection planning, some work some don’t. We’ve always had a bias towards the use of offshore trust structures set up at the right time, in the right place with the right language. Why? Because they take the discretion away from plaintiffs and their attorneys and create a […]
Attorney Ike Devji Joins Davis Miles Mcguire Gardner to Create Asset Protection & Wealth Preservation Law Group
Press Release Asset Protection Attorney Ike Devji joins multi-state law firm of Davis Miles McGuire Gardner, PLLC – expanding needed legal services to high net worth clients and their advisors. Phoenix, February 10, 2014: Noted Asset Protection Attorney Ike Devji has joined the law firm of Davis Miles McGuire Gardner, PLLC (DMMG) and its […]
Asset Protection with Offshore Trusts – The Cook Islands
This article is somewhat sensational (like most lay-articles on the subject of Asset Protection) in that it focuses on the “bad users” but the science is still sound. There are likely more people abusing tax deductions and self-directed IRAs than the kind of well timed and tax neutral offshore trust planning which we’ve helped 1000’s […]
