Asset Protection Strategies: Planning with Domestic and Offshore Entities, Volume I, Second Edition

Asset protection planning continues to be a challenging area of the law, and at the same time practitioners are seeing an increasing number of clients who require assistance to save taxes and provide for family needs through these strategies. This demanding area requires knowledge of property law, domestic and international tax law, estate planning, the law of trusts and estates, bankruptcy and debtor-creditor law, and more. Since the original publication of Asset Protection Strategies in 2005, there have been many important and interesting developments addressed in this updated edition. This compendium brings together the knowledge of multiple experts in the field who share an in-depth, professional analysis and review of the key issues that lawyers and financial planning professionals face in advising clients on plans designed to achieve the goal of tax savings, providing for other family members, and protecting the estate from creditors. Chapters provide practical viewpoints and current information to assist practitioners in analyzing the client's needs and determining the appropriate plan for each objective and situation. Asset Protection Strategies provides objective and informed guidance on legally protecting a client's wealth, including: Establishing and drafting offshore asset protection trusts Choosing an offshore jurisdiction Planning using foreign grantor trusts The Uniform Voidable Transactions Act (UVTA) Tax compliance and reporting when using offshore trusts Life insurance and asset protection strategies Analysis of homestead exemptions across the United States, and more

About the Author :
Alexander A. Bove, Jr., Esq. is a principal in the Boston law firm of Bove and Langa, P.C. In 1998 he was admitted to practice as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales. For over 18 years, Mr. Bove was an adjunct professor of law at Boston University Law School in the Graduate Tax Program. He is a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, and was recently admitted as an academician of The International Academy of Estate, Trust Law. Mr. Bove currently serves as chair of the American Bar Association’s Asset Protection Planning Committee. Mr. Bove has published hundreds of articles and several books on trusts and estates and related estate planning topics. Mr. Bove served as Editor in Chief of the Asset Protection Journal, Panel Publishers Law Division, from its inception in 1999 through June 2002. He is Editor in chief of Asset Protection Strategies, Volume I, published in 2002 by The American Bar Association, and is also Editor in chief of Asset Protection Strategies, Volume II, published in 2005. Mr. Bove is a nationally known lecturer, and has presented at the Annual Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, the annual meeting of the Association of Advanced Life Underwriters in Washington, D.C., the annual meeting of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, and the annual convention of the Million Dollar Round Table.