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By Stephen Speiser, Esq. May 2024 In 2009, the Nevis Island Assembly enacted the Nevis Limited Liability Company Ordinance, which opened the door to the convenient formation of offshore business entities in a tax-friendly and asset-protective Caribbean jurisdiction. A major rewrite of the legislation in 2017 did not make any substantive changes, disappointing many who advocated for the adoption of …
385 Banks Projected to Fail / 1,000’s of Loans Projected to Default / Guarantors Wiped Out By Stephen Speiser, Esq. May 2024 The Coming Storm Approximately $1 trillion of commercial real estate debt is coming due this year, and that number will increase dramatically in 2025. The Mortgage Bankers Association confirms that real growth in CRE debt together with major …
By Stephen Speiser, Esq. May 2024 There is, perhaps, nothing more destructive of personal wealth than a personal guarantee. Of all the parties to a commercial loan transaction, guarantors are the ones who are the most “at risk” following a default. The reasons are several: Simply put, guarantors have few, if any, defenses to a contractual liability that can completely …
By Stephen Speiser, Esq. We need to have a serious conversation about domestic asset protection trusts (DAPTs). By our last count, 20 states now have DAPT laws: Alabama, Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming. Yet, the rush to implement DAPT legislation – motivated by state bar …
By Stephen Speiser, Esq. In Nat’l Small Bus. United v. Yellen, 2024 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 36205 (March 1, 2024) the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama ruled that the CTA is unconstitutional in a lawsuit brought by the National Small Business Association (NSBA) and one of its members, Isaac Winkles. The court found that the CTA exceeds …
Can Asset Protection Save His Fortune from Manslaughter Charges? By: Stephen Speiser, Esq. February 1, 2024 The once bright future of Alec Baldwin is now in serious peril. On Friday, January 19, 2024, a New Mexico grand jury indicted the Emmy-award winning actor and director on involuntary manslaughter charges stemming from the October 2021 fatal shooting on the film set …
The location of particular assets affects the law governing those assets and your ability to protect those assets from unanticipated creditors
A state’s enactment of a DAPT law should be regarded as the state legislature’s expression per se “actual intent” under the UVTA not be imputed in any form of asset protection planning. While this is an incredibly broad inference, it reflects the reality that DAPTs do not exist in a vacuum.
There are three basic elements of a true “offshore” asset protection plan: (i) the legal structure (trust or business entity) must be formed outside the U.S. in a safe jurisdiction; (ii) the assets have been successfully migrated to the offshore legal structure; and (iii) legal control of the structure must be vested in persons or trustees who are not subject to U.S. jurisdiction.
We use a variety of special purpose entities (“SPE”) as firewalls to shield your asset from creditors. In this section we will explore the most effective SPEs for asset protection planning. Two of the most effective SPEs for asset protection are: the Domestic Asset Protection Limited Liability Company (DAPLLC) and, the Domestic Asset Protection Limited Partnership (DAPLP). We will consider each one …
