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2026.01.30 ... Charging Order Non-Compliance And Liens In Bankruptcy Examined In Radiance Capital

2026.01.28 ... Google’s NotebookLM Is The Ultimate Legal Research Organizer

2026.01.09 ... AI-Generated Court Submissions Drawing Increasingly More Severe Sanctions

2026.01.13 ... Constitutionality Of Pennsylvania's Anti-SLAPP Law Questioned In Hernandez

2026.01.18 ... Is Discovery Allowed For A UPEPA Special Motion? Yes Says New Jersey Court In Wunsch

2025.12.30 ... UPEPA Has Brought Protections For Free Expression To Over 75 Million Americans

2025.12.27 ... Michigan Uniform Public Express Protection Act Signed Into Law

2025.12.26 ... U.S. Tenth Circuit Affirms Dismissal Of Standard Insurances’ Microcaptive Tax Declaratory Judgment Case

2025.12.17 ... Fact Or Opinion? A Case Of Mixed Fact And Opinion Meets The UPEPA In Kentucky

2025.12.11 ... Some Random Tips On Legal Brief Writing

2025.11.29 ... Nationwide Database Of SLAPP Cases Introduced By First Amendment Watch

2025.11.26 ... IRS Wins 40% Penalties For Failed Microcaptive In Patel

2025.11.22 ... Dead On Arrival: Why It Is Too Late For Asset Protection After A Claim Arises

2025.11.14 ... Priority Creditor Liens Do Not Block Charging Order In JobsOhio Case

2025.11.12 ... The Serious Flaw In Nevada's Anti-SLAPP Law And Its Easy Workaround

2025.10.31 ... Only Substantial Evidence Required For A Charging Order In Orix

2025.10.27 ... Lawyers Caught Submitting AI Briefs Face Worse Than The Court's Monetary Sanctions

2025.10.17 ... Utah Supreme Court Misses On Shifting Burden Of Proof With A UPEPA Special Motion

2025.10.12 ... Ninth Circuit Reverses Itself On Immediate Appeals Of Anti-SLAPP Rulings

2025.10.09 ... Minnesota Court Of Appeals Botches UPEPA Analysis In J&D Dental Opinion

2025.09.20 ... Tenth Circuit Affirms Denial Of Discharge For Late Transfers In Cadlerock

2025.09.18 ... Delaware Citizens Obtain Greater Free Speech Protection Through UPEPA Adoption

2025.09.17 ... Of Ipso Facto Clauses, Executory Contracts, And LLC Operating Agreements In Bankruptcy

2025.09.08 ... Special Tax Shelter Strategy Ends In Plea Agreement For Michael J. Moore

2025.09.06 ... Artificial Intelligence Communications Are Not Protected By Any Privilege

2025.08.30 ... Debtor Brooksby Goes To Jail For Contempt In The Estates Bid-Rigging Case

2025.08.29 ... Failure Of Charging Orders Leads To Receiver Taking Over LLCs In Verrichia

2025.08.23 ... Misconceptions Of Asset Protection Planning

2025.08.18 ... Some Random Thoughts On Lawyers And The AI Revolution

2025.08.12 ... IRS Wins Two More Microcaptive Tax Shelter Cases In Kadau And CFM

2025.07.30 ... Charging Order In Ohio Casualty Illustrates Ancillary Orders

2025.07.28 ... Valve Corporation Gets Steamed By Own Subscriber Agreement And Is Dismissed On UPEPA Special Motion In Washington Case

2025.07.21 ... Fifth Circuit Affirms Swift Microcaptive Opinion And Penalties

2025.07.09 ... What Are The Defenses To A Personal Guarantee? Some Work, Some Don't

2025.07.01 ... When Is It Too Late For Asset Protection Planning?

2025.06.23 ... How Can A Creditor Get Information From The Debtor's LLC? Let Me Count The Ways

2025.06.21 ... New Jersey Anti-SLAPP Law Applies In Part In Federal Court In Paucek

2025.06.17 ... Texas Supreme Court Holds That Motions Are Not Within The Scope Of The TCPA In Ferchichi

2025.06.11 ... Artificial Intelligence Will Soon Replace Many Human Arbitrators

025.06.07 ... Two Courts Uphold UPEPA Fee Awards After Voluntary Dismissals

2025.05.27 ... Charging Order Still Effective After Debtor Disassociated From LLC In Baker

2025.05.20 ... Iowa Adopts The Uniform Public Expression Protection Act (UPEPA)

2025.05.15 ... Minnesota Court Of Appeals Issues First UPEPA Decision In Dalvin Cook Case

2025.05.08 ... Another Victory For Free Speech: Montana Adopts Uniform Public Expression Protection Act

2025.05.06 ... Can Civil Conspiracy Be Asserted Against One Who Assists The Debtor In Evading A Judgment? Yes, Says Optronics Court

2025.04.30 ... Can An LLC Interest Owned By A Debtor Be Sold By The Bankruptcy Trustee?

2025.04.21 ... Like Swiss Cheese: 14 Exceptions To Charging Order Exclusivity

2025.04.21 ... IRS Collection Statute Proves Another Exception To Charging Order Exclusivity

2025.04.14 ... Why You Shouldn't Count On Your LLC Being Formed Out-Of-State As Your Protection

2025.04.07 ... Surviving The Recession: Tips From The Experienced

2025.03.26 ... Free Speech Rights: Anti-SLAPP Laws Of The U.S. Ranked By Quality

2025.03.26 ... Yet Another 831(b) Microcaptive Tax Shelter Loss For The Taxpayer In Jones

2025.03.21 ... FINCEN Eliminates Beneficial Ownership Requirements For Domestic Companies

2025.03.08 ... Idaho Legislature Adopts Free Speech Protections Of The Uniform Public Expression Protection Act

2025.03.04 ... FINCEN Calls A Much Needed Time Out For Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting While Congress Mulls Changes

2025.02.25 ... Asset Protection Firm Legally Mine LLC Found To Be Engaged In The Unauthorized Practice Of Law In Ohio

2025.02.19 ... The Texas Anti-SLAPP Law May Be Neutered For All The Wrong Reasons

2025.02.14 ... The FINCEN Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting Deadline Might Be Extended, But Prepare To File Now Anyway

2025.02.10 ... Attorney Who Refused To Comply With Court Orders Gets Recommendation Of Disbarment By California Bar Court

2025.02.06 ... Failure To Explain Structures And Transactions Leads To A Denial Of Discharge In Link

2025.01.27 ... Fearmongering The Civil And Criminal Penalties Of Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting

2025.01.23 ... U.S. Supreme Court Allows Beneficial Ownership Interest Reporting To Go Forward

2025.01.18 ... Killing A Tax Shelter: Treasury Publishes Final Regulations For 831(b) Microcaptive Transactions

2025.01.15 ... Supreme Mess: The Beneficial Ownership Interest Reporting Controversy Lands At The U.S. Supreme Court

2025.01.10 ... U.S. Treasury Releases Final Regulations On Microcaptive Tax Shelters

2025.01.09 ... Ohio Adopts The Uniform Public Expression Protection Act As Its First Anti-SLAPP Law

2025.01.08 ... Kentucky Charging Order Issued For Interests In Out-Of-State LLCs In Big Sandy

2024.12.29 ... Fifth Circuit Makes A Huge Mess Out Of Beneficial Ownership Reporting

2024.12.24 ... FINCEN Beneficial Ownership Reporting January 1 Deadline Back On So File Now

2024.12.22 ... Tax Non-Filer Denied Discharge In Joseph

2024.12.16 ... Ohio Doctor Falls For The Ultimate Tax Plan And Pleads Guilty To Tax Crime

2024.12.09 ... With Deadline Looming, FINCEN's Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting Is A Hot Mess

2024.12.05 ... Bipartisan Federal Anti-SLAPP Legislation Reintroduced And Improved

2024.11.21 ... ERISA Creditor Protection Extended To Flawed Or Abused Retirement Plans In Gilbert

2024.11.18 ... Surreptitious Taping Of Provo Canyon Treatment Center Leads To Utah’s First UPEPA Opinion

2024.11.15 ... Promoters Of LLC Interests To Charity Scheme Sentenced To Federal Prison

2024.11.12 ... Repatriation Order For Offshore Assets In Miller

2024.11.02 ... HOAs Must File The FINCEN BOI Form And Here Is How

2024.10.21 ... Ethical Issues For Attorneys Who Sell Insurance And Financial Products

2024.10.16 ... Pure Trust Organization Leads To Indictment Of Dentist In Ulibarri

2024.10.13 ... The Power Of Assignment Orders Illustrated In Moonbug

2024.10.07 ... California Drastically Reduces Creditor Exemptions For Qualified Accounts

2024.10.26 ... Debtor’s Fraudulent Transfers Within One Year Of Bankruptcy Filing Leads To Disaster In Cadlerock

2024.09.24 ... States With Better Charging Order Law Is Largely An Illusion

2024.09.23 ... FINCEN Trend Analysis Looks At Mail Theft Check Fraud

2024.09.19 ... Indian Tribe-Based Microcaptive Flops In Royalty Management

2024.09.13 ... The New One-Day Rule For Honoring Bank Levies In California

2024.09.06 ... Court Division Of Marital Property Not Subject To UVTA Claim In Bijan Boutiques

2024.08.28 ... Creditor Successfully Levies On Debtor’s Funds Held In Attorney Trust Account In Dickson

2024.08.22 ... Common Law Fraudulent Transfer Claims Subject To UVTA Extinguishment Period In California

2024.08.12 ... Attorney Alleged To Have Embezzled Up To $282 Million From Clients In Purported Debt Resolution Scam

2024.08.07 ... Pennsylvania Adopts UPEPA-Based Anti-SLAPP Law

2024.08.03 ... Tenth Circuit Orders Sale Of Debtor’s LLC Interest In Marijuana Business In Barch

2024.07.25 ... Attorney Alleged To Have Tried To Hack Judge’s Email Account In Libman

2024.07.11 ... Kentucky UPEPA Survives State Constitutional Challenge In Davenport Extreme Pools

2024.07.09 ... Abusive Trust Tax Shelters And Charitable Foundation Lead To Indictments In Conner

2024.07.06 ... Eleventh Circuit Says No Fraudulent Transfer Remedy Against The Debtor/Transferor Only In SE Property Holdings

2024.07.01 ... The Sackler Family’s Plan Is Nixed By Ejusdem Generis In Purdue Pharma

2024.06.14 ... Colorado Single-Member LLC Falls To Alter Ego In Bronchick

2024.06.10 ... Single-Member LLC Fails To Protect Assets in Kentucky

2024.06.06 ... The European Union Adopts Anti-SLAPP Directive

2024.06.04 ... Doctor Sits In Jail For Refusal To Repatriate Offshore Moneys

2024.06.02 ... Minnesota Adopts The Uniform Public Expression Protection Act

2024.05.20 ... Microcaptive Promoter Celia Clark Settles IRS Promoter Penalties

2024.05.18 ... Gain Elimination Plan Causes Three Promoters To Gain Convictions

2024.05.11 ... Kentucky UPEPA Held Not Available In Federal Court In Peach

2024.05.05 ... Ultimate Tax Plan Promoters Mike Meyer And Rao Garuda Sentenced

2024.05.01 ... Maine Adopts The Uniform Public Expression Protection Act

2024.04.22 ... Second Circuit Nixes New York Charging Order Protection For Many LLCs

2024.04.13 ... Captive Manager Avoids 6700 Penalties After Jury Trial

2024.04.10 ... Doctor’s Transfer To Wife To Avoid Creditors Doesn't Survive Divorce

2024.04.07 ... Florida Looking To Collect 5.3% Tax Against Out-Of-State Captive Insurers

2024.04.06 ... Another Taxpayer Microcaptive Blowout Loss In Patel

2024.03.28 ... Bellingham Group Bank Guarantee Scam Artists Sentenced

2024.03.23 ... Tax Evasion Through Swiss Banks Alleged Against Florida Resident

2024.03.13 ... A Primer On Creditor Exemptions

2024.03.09 ... Senate Finance Committee Releases Report On PPLI Tax Shelters

2024.03.08 ... Corporate Transparency Act Held Unconstitutional, For Now

2024.02.21 ... Inherited And Overfunded IRAs Not Creditor-Exempt In Ponte

2024.02.17 ... Constitutionality Of Washington UPEPA In Thurman

2024.02.12 ... Prolific Microcaptive Promoter Strauss Pleads Guilty

2024.02.10 ... Sixth IRS Victory Against Microcaptives In Swift

2024.01.30 ... Circumventing Charging Orders Leads To Imputed Distributions

2024.01.24 ... The Ultimate Tax Plan Leads To Ultimate Guilty Plea By Mike Meyer

2024.01.14 ... Convicted Conservation Easement Promoters Get 25 And 23 Years In Jail

2024.01.11 ... IRS Wins Fifth Microcaptive Case In Keating

2023.12.21 ... FinCEN’s Beneficial Ownership Information Form Required In 2024

2023.12.16 ... Banque Pictet Enters Into Deferred Prosecution Agreement

2023.12.11 ... Debtor's Late Transfer To Tenancy By The Entireties Fails In Paulsen

2023.12.02 ... Charging Order And Receiver Intersect In CRABAR/GBF

2023.11.26 ... Why LLC Interests Can Be Lousy Collateral

2023.11.23 ... Bankruptcy Law And Charging Order Law Collide Again In Pettine

2023.11.19 ... Unhappy Times For Syndicated Conservation Easements

2023.11.09 ... Tension Between Receivers And Charging Orders Highlighted In Klinek

2023.10.28 ... Abusive Captive Tax Shelters Continue To Be Sold Despite IRS Efforts

2023.10.24 ... Three Interesting Charging Order Opinions In The Estates Bid-Rigging Scheme

2023.10.16 ... Offshore Tax Evasion Leads To Guilty Plea By Schechter

2023.10.09 ... Contempt For Violating Charging Order In Brockley Or Not?

2023.09.29 ... Charging Order Exclusivity Circumvented By Receiver In Mexico Foods

2023.09.27 ... Offshore Trusts And The Good Debtor Versus Bad Debtor Debate

2023.09.18 ... Attorneys Who Aided Debtors Hit With $4.5 Million In Attorney Fees

2023.09.10 ... IRS Warns About Complex Trust Tax Scam Used To Defer Income Taxes

2023.08.29 ... Cascading Charging Order Denied In Bran

2023.08.27 ... Understanding The Federal Wage Garnishment Law

2023.08.16 ... Contempt For Attempting To Nullify Gifts To A Revocable Trust In Winget

2023.08.12 ... The Ultimate Tax Plan Of Donations Of LLC Interests To Charity Leads To The Indictment Of Michael Meyer

2023.07.27 ... The New Jersey Legislature Adopts UPEPA

2023.07.20 ... Attorneys Fees Awarded For Fraudulent Transfer Deemed Not Dischargeable In Kruse

2023.07.13 ... Thumbs Up Emoji Response Leads To Contractual Liability In Achter

2023.07.12 ... California Finally Closes State Tax Loophole For Incomplete Gift Non-Grantor Trusts (INGs)

2023.06.30 ... U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Civil RICO Actions In Post-Claim Debtor Planning Cases In Smagin

2023.06.26 ... Artificial Intelligence And The Law: An Early Warning

2023.06.19 ... U.S. Treasury To Make Maltese Pensions Plans A Listed Transaction

2023.06.12 ... The DOJ’s Crackdown On Digital Currency Crime And Implications For The Fed’s Own Digital Currency

2023.05.22 ... Third Circuit Denies Appeal Of The Delaware Department Of Insurance In Tax Shelter Captive Summons Case

2023.05.10 ... Proposed Changes To The Texas Citizens Participation Act Will Undermine Free Speech Protections In The Lone Star State

2023.05.08 ... Charging Order Jurisdictional Issues In Wright

2023.05.08 ... Spendthrift Trusts In California And External Creditors

2023.04.17 ... A Deeper Dive Into The Two Tests For Microcaptive Tax Shelters Under Treasury’s Proposed Regulations

2023.04.14 ... Recourse And Non-Recourse Debt In The Commercial Real Estate Context

2023.04.11 ... U.S. Treasury Department Issues Proposed Regulations To Finally Eviscerate Microcaptive Tax Shelters

2023.04.06 ... Uniform Public Expression Protection Act Adopted By Utah To Update Its Anti-SLAPP Laws

2023.03.30 ... Charging Order Informational Rights Tested In SFG Commercial Aircraft Leasing

2023.03.27 ... Don’t Make A Mess Out Of The Texas Citizens Participation Act

2023.03.23 ... Personal Creditor Exemptions Not Available For Moneys Held In Entities Subject To Charging Order In Signorelli

2023.03.07 ... The U.S. Tax Court Rejects 501(c)(15) Status For Commonwealth Underwriting & Annuity Services, Inc.

2023.02.27 ... Purely Passive Investor Hit With Liability And Denial Of Discharge By U.S. Supreme Court In Bartenwerfer

2023.02.21 ... Don't Get Scammed Twice: Avoiding The Asset Recovery Scam

2023.02.20 ... Captive Manager Arsenal Insurance Files For Bankruptcy Protection After Allegations Of Fraud By Its Former Owner

2023.02.10 ... Ambassador Captive And Brandon White Fiasco Highlights Need For Better Captive Manager Oversight

2023.01.27 ... Squabbling Between Business Competitors Leads To UPEPA Motion In Washington State

2023.01.23 ... Costa Rican Sociedad Anónima Not Amenable To Pennsylvania Charging Order In Estate Of Lieberman

2023.01.19 ... Attorney Stewart Feldman And Captive Manager Capstone Hit With Almost $90 Million Judgment By Their Clients

2023.01.17 ... Pinnacle Actuarial Summoned By IRS To Produce Documents In Promoter Examination Of Oxford Insurance

2022.12.26 ... Why Samuel Bankman-Fried's Parents May Have To Pay Treble Damages For Any Assets They Received From FTX

2022.12.23 ... Why The Political Campaigns That Received FTX Donations Will Have To Pay Those Funds Back To FTX

2022.12.19 ... The DOJ Is Prosecuting Samuel Bankman-Fried, But Where Are All The Other Crypto Prosecutions?

2022.12.12 ... Understanding Depositor Remedies For The FTX And Other Cryptocurrency Failures

2022.11.28 ... First UPEPA State Appellate Opinion Considers Political Speech In Jha v. Khan

2022.11.17 ... Understanding Receivers For Collection And While Asset Protection Planning

2022.11.14 ... The IRS Loses Notice 2017-10 Regarding Syndicated Conservation Easement Tax Shelters For APA Non-Compliance

2022.11.02 ... The Private Registered Bond For Investment Scam

2022.10.31 ... Alaska Supreme Court Confronted With Charging Order Priority Issues In Duffus

2022.10.25 ... Single Member Limited Liability Companies And Creditor-Debtor Law

2022.10.16 ... UPEPA Tested In Context Of Anti-SLAPP Dispute Over Psychic Conversions With A Dead Person In Al-Albustani

2022.10.08 ... FinCEN Releases Final Rule On Beneficial Ownership Information And Its Effect On Creditor-Debtor Law

2022.09.30 ... IRS Drops Appeal Regarding Notice 2016-66’s Invalidation For Microcaptives

2022.09.26 ... Is Arbitration Really In Your Best Interests?

2022.09.16 ... Understanding Overextending Insolvency And Sinking Insolvency: The UVTA's Two Strangest Tests

2022.09.30 ... Anti-SLAPP Laws And Actions By Or Against Attorneys Personally

2022.08.29 ... ERISA Protection From Creditors Shown To Have Substantial Weaknesses In Greebel

2022.08.23 ... Senator Wyden At Senate Finance Announces Investigation Of Abusive Private Placement Life Insurance (PPLI) Transactions

2022.08.22 ... Stanford University Wins $149,596 In Attorneys Fees Against Project Veritas On UPEPA Special Motion To Strike

2022.08.08 ... Eleventh Circuit Rules For IRS In Dispute Over Privileged Documents Relating To Moore Ingram’s Microcaptives

2022.07.31 ... Crypto Turns Out To Be Nothing But A Massive Pump And Dump Scheme Fueled By Widespread Manipulation

2022.07.25 ... Ninth Circuit Expands Use Of Civil RICO Against Debtors And Their Affiliated Entities And Persons In Smagin

2022.07.14 ... Settlor Of Belize Trust Who Would Not Turn Over CBOE Stock To Ex-Wife Sent To Jail In Marriage Of Harnack

2022.07.11 ... Debtor’s Revocation Of Trust Allows Creditors A Window To Assets In Winget

2022.06.27 ... De-Centralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) For Cryptocurrency Alleged To Be A General Partnership In Sarcuni

2022.06.20 ... Understanding The Limits Of The Transferee's Good Faith Defense In Voidable Transaction Law

2022.06.07 ... IRS Dirty Dozen List Includes Abusive Puerto Rico Captive Insurance Transactions

2022.06.06 ... IRS Wins Ruling On Reconsideration In CIC Services Case Which Cuts Practical Effect Of The Ruling To Almost Nothing

2022.05.27 ... First UPEPA Order Issued In Project Veritas Case

2022.05.23 ... Should Bitcoin Or Other Cryptocurrencies Be In Your Retirement Accounts?

2022.05.16 ... Tenth Circuit Issues Landmark Microcaptive Insurance Company Opinion In Reserve Mechanical

2022.05.09 ... Registered Agent’s Mistake Leads To Liability Of Zions For Failure To Honor A Levy In Bergstrom

2022.04.29 ... UPEPA’s Commercial Speech Exception Examined For The First Time In Boshears

2022.04.26 ... Charging Order Against Out-Of-State LLCs Allowed In AVT

2022.04.18 ... Kentucky Adopts The Uniform Public Expression Protection Act

2022.04.11 ... Fifth Circuit Navigates Around Charging Order Exclusivity For Intramember Dispute In Jiao

2022.03.31 ... Debtor’s Failure To Object To Charging Order Has Dire Consequences In Red Lion

2022.03.28 ... IRS Notice 2016-66 On Microcaptives Vacated By U.S. District Court On Procedural Grounds In CIC Services Case

2022.03.17 ... Garnishment Of Non-Party LLC’s Bank Account Disallowed In McLeod

2022.03.04 ... Superseding Indictment In Conservation Easement Shelter Case Reveals Bogus Property Valuations

2022.02.27 ... AirTags Used By Creditors? That’s Just The Tip Of The Investigation Iceberg

2022.02.24 ... Tenth Circuit Nukes Charging Order Exclusivity In EarthGrains

2022.02.09 ... How Successor Liability Might Disrupt The Best Laid Plans Of Cyber Ninjas

2022.02.07 ... Is Your California IRA Protected From Creditors? Probably Not.

2022.02.05 ... Charging Order Lien Avoided By Bankruptcy Court In Kleynerman

2022.01.31 ... IRS Attorney Hiring Binge Spells More Trouble For Microcaptives And Syndicated Conservation Easements

2022.01.28 ... Georgia Bankruptcy Highlights Issues Relating To The Protection Of Roth IRAs In Hoffman

2022.01.05 ... Debtor’s Law Firm Fees Lien Takes Priority Over Charging Order In Rice

2021.11.30 ... California Further Extends Reverse Veil Piercing To Multiple-Member LLCs In Blizzard Energy

2021.11.26 ... Post-Claim California Private Retirement Plan To Protect Debtor’s Non-Exempt Assets Held To Be A Sham In Gluck

2021.11.24 ... Lawyer, Law Firm And Bank Exposed To Civil RICO And Other Liability For Assisting A Debtor Post-Claim In Kruse

2021.11.16 ... The Role Of Liability Insurance In Asset Protection Planning

2021.10.31 ... Why So Few Rich Americans In The Pandora Papers?

2021.10.30 ... Ninth Circuit Agrees That Damages Is Not An Element Of A Fraudulent Transfer Case In Medina

2021.10.21 ... Residence Underwater Due To Liens Not An Asset That Could Be Fraudulently Transferred In Tootian

2021.10.16 ... Understanding Ipso Facto Clauses In Asset Protection Planning

2021.09.30 ... Charging Order Interstate Jurisdictional Issues In Oberg

2021.09.28 ... The Uniform Public Expression Protection Act: Construction And Uniformity

2021.09.20 ... Statutory Authority For Charging Order Against Professional Association Addressed In Berns Custom Homes

2021.09.13 ... The Uniform Public Expression Protection Act: Costs, Attorney's Fees And Litigation Expenses

2021.08.30 ... Charging Order Jurisdictional Issues In O’Neal

2021.08.25 ... The Uniform Public Expression Protection Act: Appeal

2021.08.18 ... The Complex Trust Is Simply The Criminal Tax Evasion Device Known As The Pure Trust Repackaged

017.08.21 ... IRS Notches Big Tax Court Win On 831(b) Captive Insurance In Avrahami Decision

2021.08.09 ... The Uniform Public Expression Protection Act: Analysis And Dismissal

2021.07.30 ... U.S. District Judge Employs Common Sense To Overrule Glitch In Charging Order Statute In Brogdon

2021.07.26 ... The Case Of Ernie Ryder And When Tax Shelter Promoters Drink Their Own Koolaid

2021.07.23 ... Delaware Department Of Insurance Loses IRS Summons Fight For Artex And Tribeca Captives But Can Appeal

2021.07.21 ... Repatriation To U.S. Of $18 Million Of Debtor’s Money In Swiss Bank Accounts In Schwarzbaum

2021.06.22 ... The Uniform Public Expression Protection Act: Proof And Evidence

2021.06.19 ... The Uniform Public Expression Protection Act: The Hearing And Ruling

2021.06.17 ... Delaware Chancery Court Navigates Around Charging Order Exclusivity And Recognizes Reverse Veil-Piercing

2021.06.09 ... The Uniform Public Expression Protection Act: The Automatic Stay

2021.05.31 ... The Uniform Public Expression Protection Act: The Special Motion

2021.05.28 ... Swiss Life Companies Enter Into Deferred Prosecution Arrangement For Abusive Private Placement Life Insurance Policies

2021.05.20 ... U.S. Supreme Court Rules On Anti-Injunction Act In Microcaptive Context

2021.05.11 ... The Uniform Public Expression Protection Act: Scope And Applicability

2021.04.30 ... Washington State Legislature Passes The Uniform Public Expression Protection Act

2021.04.26 ... The IRS Warns Again On Microcaptives And Announces A New Office Of Promoter Investigations

2021.04.17 ... America’s Homelessness Problem Is About To Get Much Worse As The Eviction Moratorium Ends

2021.04.09 ... Temporal Issues In Alter Ego Analysis

2021.03.30 ... Some Random Musings About Single-Member LLCs Versus Multiple-Member LLCs

2021.03.27 ... Collateral Attack On Charging Order Via Federal Court Fails In Kerr

2021.03.22 ... The U.S. Tax Court Drives A Stake Into The Heart Of Microcaptives In Caylor Land

2021.03.15 ... The Uniform Public Expression Protection Act: The Three-Phase Analysis

2021.02.26 ... The Uniform Public Expression Protection Act: Background And Underpinnings

2021.02.21 ... Creditor’s Early Motion For A Receiver Gets The Kabosh In Medipro Case

2021.02.15 ... Debtor’s Large LLC Distribution To Circumvent Charging Order Draws Ire Of Non-Debtor Member In Bargreen

2021.02.08 ... Decade-Long Limitations Period For IRS Can Be Utilized By Bankruptcy Trustee For All Creditors In Zagaroli

2021.01.27 ... Warren-Nadler Consumer Bankruptcy Reform Act Portends Biggest Changes To Bankruptcy Code Since 2005

2021.01.26 ... Congress Passes Corporate Transparency Act To Require Beneficial Ownership Filings For LLCs And Corporations

2021.01.24 ... UVTA Held Not To Require A Third-Party Transferee In Nagel

2021.01.19 ... Equitable Remedy To Circumvent Charging Order Exclusivity Denied In Ramos

2020.12.31 ... U.S. District Judge Denies Blanket Assertion Of Attorney-Client Privilege In Moore Ingram Microcaptive Promoter Audit Case

2020.12.24 ... Accountants In Syndicated Conservation Easement Shelter Plead Guilty

2020.12.17 ... Louisiana Court Of Appeals Rejects Busting Of Single-Member LLC In AOK Property

2020.11.28 ... Uniform Law Commission Creates Drafting Committee To Clean Up And Modernize American LLC Law

2020.11.26 ... Contempt Not Precluded By Charging Order Exclusivity In Gengs

2020.11.23 ... Charging Order Against Interest Of LLC In Bankruptcy Held Not To Violate The Automatic Stay In Nilhan

2020.11.11 ... California Court Of Appeals Approves Alter Ego Theory To Add Additional Judgment Debtors In Butler

2020.10.29 ... The Serious Disconnect Between A Hot Residential Real Estate Market And The Coming Tsunami Of Foreclosures

2020.10.22 ... Eleventh Circuit Affirms Punitive Damages For A Fraudulent Transfer And Rejects Constructive Notice In Judkins

2020.10.22 ... IRS Announces A Second Settlement Initiative For Abusive Microcaptive Tax Shelters But With Much Stricter

2020.10.02 ... IRS Warns Microcaptive Shelter Penalties To Get Much Worse, Taking On The Puerto Rico Deal And Other Next-Generative Captive Shelters

2020.09.23 ... U.S. Tax Court Affirms Most Penalties In Patel Microcaptive Shelter Case But Kicks Out Some For IRS Procedural Errors

2020.09.19 ... California Increases Homestead Exemption In New Legislation

2020.09.12 ... Microcaptive Manager Artex And Related Professionals Dodge The Class Action Bullet In Shivkov

2020.09.10 ... GAO Report To Grassley At Senate Finance Slams Offshore Microcaptive And Variable Life Insurance Transactions

2020.08.29 ... Federal Anti-SLAPP Legislation Re-Introduced In Congress But Needs Updating

2020.08.26 ... Syndicated Conservation Easement Tax Shelters Slammed By U.S. Senate Finance Report

2020.08.24 ... Buyers Of Jade Risk Get Taken To Woodshed In Litigation Arising From Merger Of Captive Insurance Managers

2020.08.08 ... IRS Sends Second Wave Of Soft Letter Warnings To Certain Captive Owners For Abusive Microcaptive Transactions

2020.07.30 ... Zambri Zaps Harrah’s Casino For $850,449.60 In Fraudulent Transfers Ordered Repaid To Bankruptcy Trustee

2020.07.27 ... Microcaptive Tax Shelter Promoter Investigation Of Moore Ingram Law Firm Leads To Attorney-Client Privilege Issues With Client Documents

2020.07.22 ... U.S. Tax Court Approves Penalties For Microcaptive Transaction In Oropeza

2020.07.20 ... Uniform Law Commission Approves New Anti-SLAPP Law In Time For Consideration By New York Legislature

2020.06.30 ... Attorney Fees Held Awardable Under Nevada Fraudulent Transfer Law In Morgan Stanley Opinion

2020.06.24 ... The U.S. Department Of Justice Files Suit To Enforce An IRS Summons Against The Delaware Department Of Insurance For Artex Transactions

2020.06.20 ... Payment Of Distributions Directly To Creditor Holding A Charging Order Deemed Appropriate In BMO Case

2020.06.11 ... Bank That Was Financially Involved With Debtor Gets Caught Up In Fraudulent Transfer Case In Wilson

2020.05.25 ... Mechanics Of Assignment Orders Illuminated In Optronics Technologies

2020.05.24 ... Stop In The Name Of Lien: The IRS Loses Against The Partnership Of Motown Songwriter Edmond Holland, Jr.

2020.05.21 ... Utah Supreme Court Rejects Mixed Motive Test For Intentional Fraudulent Transfers In Jones Case

2020.05.19 ... Coronavirus Pandemic Threatens Run On Business Interruption Policies Sold By Captive Insurance Risk Pools

2020.04.30 ... Charging Order Denied For Lack Of Proof Of The Debtor's Interest In Dhillon

2020.04.17 ... Coronavirus Pandemic Will Not Slow Down IRS’s Pursuit Of Microcaptive And Syndicated Conservation Easement Transactions Says

2020.04.13 ... Surviving The Recession: Things To Avoid And Things To Do If You Are Financially Crashing

2020.04.06 ... America’s Small Businesses Need Immediately An EZ Chapter 11 Filing Procedure To Flatten The Curve Of Failures From COVID-19

2020.03.28 ... Alleged Syndicated Conservation Easement Tax Shelter Promoters Face Class-Action Lawsuit

2020.03.17 ... Series LLC Not Allowed To Play Pea-Shell Game In City Of Urbana Opinion

2020.03.16 ... Thoughts On Preparing For The Recession

2020.02.29 ... Florida Charging Order Requires Distributions To Be Re-Directed To The Creditor In Kostoglou

2020.02.24 ... Mediation: Don’t Just Mail It In

2020.02.16 ... Talisman Casualty Denied Diversity Jurisdiction Of Protected Cell Series LLC In National WW II Museum Case

2020.02.04 ...The IRS Strikes A Rich Seam Of Tax And Penalty Gold In Risk-Pooled 831(b) Captives And Is Sending In More Miners

2020.01.30 ... Sixth Circuit Punts On Tennessee Reverse Piercing Law In Church Joint Venture Case

2020.01.20 ... California Retirement Plan For Asset Protection Purpose Fails To Qualify For Creditor Exemption In O’Brien

2020.01.18 ... Trust Attorney Who Let Client Hide Money From The IRS In Attorney’s IOLTA Trust Account Convicted In Green Case

2020.01.06 ... Twyne’s Case And The Most Infamous Flock Of Sheep In Anglo-American Law

2019.12.31 ... The Next Generation Captive Insurance Tax Shelter Explained

2019.12.21 ... Monster Energy Sees Arbitration Judgment Vacated For Inadequate Disclosures By Arbitrator And Concerns Over Repeat Player Bias

2019.12.07 ... New York Finally Modernizes Its Fraudulent Transfer Laws By Adopting The Uniform Voidable Transactions Act

2019.12.05 ... Bitter Coffee: Starbucks Squabbles With The Washington Insurance Commissioner Over $633 Million Paid To Its Captive Insurance Company

2019.11.27 ... Nevada Supreme Court Answers Some Alter Ego Questions Leaves Others Unanswered In Magliarditi

2019.11.24 ... Imputed Distributions To Evade Charging Order Result In Receiver And Sale Of Assets In Earthgrains

2019.11.21 ... Swiss Private Placement Life Insurance Policy ( PPLI ) Results In Conviction Of Blandi For Tax Evasion

2019.11.17 ... IRS Suggests Criminal Referrals To Be Made In Abusive 831(b) Captive Tax Shelter Cases

2019.10.29 ... Repeal Of Kentucky’s Fraudulent Transfer Law In Favor Of UVTA Causes Headaches In Orchard

2019.10.27 ... Uniform Law Commission Adopts Uniform Registration Of Canadian Money Judgments Act

2019.10.19 ... Texas Homestead Gets Constitutional Protection From Fraudulent Transfer Claim In Lapides

2019.10.16 ... Co-Located Business In Residence Means Co-Located Receiver In Lacava

2019.09.28 ... Johnson & Johnson Wins Appeal On $60 Million Tax Case To New Jersey For Captive Insurance Company

2019.09.26 ... Understanding The IRS Settlement Initiative Offer For Targeted 831(b) Captive Insurance Companies

2019.09.16 ... IRS Announces Global Settlement Of Abusive 831(b) Captive Insurance Tax Shelters

2019.09.13 ... The Sackler Family And Fraudulent Transfers

2019.08.21 ... Of Jeffrey Epstein And The Assets He Placed Into Trust Two Days Before His Death

2019.08.18 ... California Creditors Can Execute Against 100% Of Mandatory Trust Distributions In Blech

2019.08.08 ... Artex Defeats Attempt To Form Class Action And Forces Individual Arbitration Of Captive Disputes

2019.07.30 ... Fiduciary Duties In An LLC May Be Contracted Away Says Arizona Supreme Court in Sky Harbor Hotel

2019.07.27 ... Cortez Rule For California Uniform Voidable Transactions Act Reaffirmed In Potter

2019.07.08 ... Fraudulent Transfers And The Statute of 13 Elizabeth Translated To Contemporary Legal English

2019.07.04 ... Second Class Action Against A Risk-Pooled 831(b) Captive Promoter Roils Sector

2019.06.27 ... California Child Support Order Not Enforced Against South Dakota Trust In Cleopatra

2019.06.24 ... Charging Order Protection Backfires At Judicial Sale In Preservation Holdings

2019.06.22 ... New York Trust Not Subject To North Carolina Tax Because of In-State Beneficiaries In Kaestner

2019.06.19 ... Annuity Payments Protected From Creditors In Rensin

2019.05.30 ... Understanding The Elements Of The UVTA Tests For A Voidable Transaction

2019.05.28 ... New York Denies Stewart's Shops Deduction For Premiums Paid To Its Captive Insurance Company

2019.05.23 ... Sixth Circuit Also Gives CIC Services Thumbs-Down On IRS Notice 2016-66 Challenge

2019.05.20 ... Good Faith Not Enough For Transferee To Establish Fraudulent Transfer Defense In Hawk

2019.04.29 ... Mike Meyer's 'Ultimate Tax Plan' Involving Charitable LLCs And LPs Hit With DOJ Permanent Injunction

2019.04.27 ... Iowa Supreme Court Serves Up A Shoddy Charging Order Opinion In Retterath

2019.04.23 ... Third US Tax Court Opinion Denies Deductions For Risk-Pooled 831(b) Captive Arrangement In Syzygy

2019.04.15 ... Third-Party -Created Trust May Be A Self-Settled Trust And Included In Bankruptcy Estate In Cyr Case

2019.03.31 ... Voidability Of Sham Lawsuit And Judgment At Issue In Chen

2019.03.29 ... Macy’s Captive Insurance Company Faces Potential $23.8 Million In Maryland Corporate Tax Liability

2019.03.24 ... Tax And Asset Protection Huckster Causes Big Problems For Taxpayer In Burbach

2019.03.19 ... Million Dollar Quartet Leads To Lien Priority Dispute Involving Charging Order

2019.02.25 ... Jamie Dimon Shows Why Bitcoin Is Not The Future

2019.02.22 ... California Court Of Appeals Swings And Misses On Pre-Marital Fraudulent Transfer Agreement In Sturm

2019.02.18 ... Florida Order Awarding LLC Interest To Creditor Reversed In Pansky

2019.02.12 ... Why The Mere Incorporation Or Formation Process For A New Entity Is Not A Fraudulent Transfer

2019.01.30 ... Resignation Of Corporate Officer Not A Fraudulent Transfer In Texas Opinion

2019.01.28 ... Understanding The Protected Series Act: Article 8 And Final Thoughts

2019.01.23 ... Artificial Intelligence Will Replace Your Financial Adviser – And That’s A Good Thing

2019.01.06... Personal Guarantees Are A Financial Noose That Can And Will Cause Financial Death

2018.12.31 ... Note Substitution For Trust Property Invalidated As A Fraudulent Transfer In Morales

2018.12.26 ... The Difference Between Crypto And A Dollar, Euro, Yen, Etc.

2018.12.20 ... DOJ Sues To Shut Down Syndicated Conservation Easement Tax Shelter Promoters

2018.12.20 ... Class Action Targets Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Over Captive Insurance Tax Shelter

2018.11.28 ... The Cryptocurrency Paradox And Why Crypto Is Failing

2018.11.24 ... Understanding The Protected Series Act: Treating Out-Of-State Series

2018.11.20 ... The Great Cryptocurrency Scam

2018.11.18 ... Understanding The Protected Series Act: Mergers

2018.10.29 ... Understanding The Protected Series Act: Dissolution And Winding Up Of Protected Series

2018.10.28 ... Advising About Or Assisting With A Fraudulent Transfer Is About To Get Very Dangerous In California

2018.10.21 ... Understanding The Protected Series Act: Liability Limitations And Claims

2018.10.19 ... Why You Need A Virtual Private Network (VPN)

2018.09.29 ... Morgan Stanley Uses Charging Order As An Entree To Appointment Of Receiver

2018.09.24 ... Samsung Note9 And Notebook 9 Pro A Match Made In Tech Heaven

2018.09.16 ... Debtor's Access To LLC Assets For His Personal Purposes Leads To Turnover Order In Golfwood Square

2018.09.05 ... Whistleblower Yanks Back Rug To Expose Alleged Dirt Of Moody's Captive Insurance Company

2018.08.30 ... Understanding The Protected Series Act: Assets, Members And Management

2018.08.28 ... Understanding The Protected Series Act: Creating A Protected Series And Service Of Process

2018.08.24 ... Undocumented Loans Easy Fodder For Florida Fraudulent Transfer Claim In Kaplan

2018.08.13 ... Late-Arriving Member To LLC Results In Fraudulent Transfer Finding And Punitive Damages In Lacava

2018.07.30 ... Judicial Foreclosure Of An Alleged Single-Member Florida LLC Fails In Saadi

2018.07.28 ... Johnson & Johnson Loses $60 Million Case To New Jersey For Captive Insurance Company

2018.07.26 ... Ninth Circuit Rules For IRS In Shareholder Distribution Claw-Back Fraudulent Transfer Case In Slone

2018.07.18 ... Understanding The Protected Series Act: The Framework of UPSA - Part 2 of a Series

2018.06.25 ... Analysis Of The IRS's Big Win Against Risk-Pooled Small Captives In Reserve Mechanical

2018.06.19 ... Capstone's PoolRe Fails To Provide Risk Distribution In Reserve Mechanical Captive Insurance Case

2018.06.18 ... Understanding The Uniform Protected Series Act: What Is A Protected Series?

2018.06.11 ... Arizona Court Of Appeals Misses With Fraudulent Transfer Opinion For ERISA Contributions In Shah

2018.05.31 ... LLC Manager's Fiduciary Duty Possibly Breached By Not Making A Distribution To Creditor In Garcia

2018.05.27 ... Washington State Goes After Microsoft's Captive For Unpaid Premium Taxes And Unauthorized Insurance

2018.05.13 ... Georgia Governor Vetoes Domestic Asset Protection Trust Legislation

2018.05.12 ... Bankruptcy Trustee's Compromise With Offshore Trust Fails To Win Court Approval In Olson

2018.04.22 ... Creditor Fails To Prove Up Contempt For Violating Charging Order In SE Property

2018.04.22 ... State And Federal Fraudulent Transfer Law Diverge Over Exempt Property In Vorhes

2018.04.20 ... Georgia Legislature Snookered Into Passing Legislation To Cause Investment Flight From Georgia

2018.04.14 ... Bitcoin And Cryptocurrency: Unsuitable At Any Speed

2018.03.29 ... Bitcoin's Crazy Volatility Creates Dream Marketplace For Bears

2018.03.26 ... IRS Prevails On Alter Ego Grounds Against Financially-Distressed Companies In Cordes

2018.03.22 ... Charging Orders Against Out-Of-State LLCs Clarified In German American Capital Opinion

2018.03.05 ... Alaska Supreme Court Hammers Last Nail In DAPT Coffin For Use In Non- DAPT States In Toni 1 Trust

2018.02.28 ... The Great Lawyer Ratings Racket And Ten Considerations For Locating A Good Attorney

2018.02.22 ... Ancillary Provisions In Charging Orders Illuminated In Law

2018.02.09 ... Why Bitcoin Is So Volatile

2018.02.01 ... Bitcoin: The First Truly Worldwide Bubble

2018.01.29 ... Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency And The Government Regulation Paradox

2018.01.27 ... Beware The Puerto Rico Captive Insurance Tax Shelter

2018.01.21 ... Bitcoin Hurt By Lack Of Viable Pricing Model And The Ghostbusters Stairs Syndrome

2018.01.16 ... Asset Protection Year In Review 2017

2017.12.28 ... The Great Bitcoin Scam

2017.12.18 ... Revocation Of A Company's S-Election By Shareholders Not Deemed A Voidable Transaction In Arrowsmith

2017.12.17 ... Charging Order Priority Makes For A Mess In Florida In Capstone Bank Case

2017.12.07 ... 'I Only Gave It To My Spouse In Case I Got Sued' Defense Flops Once Again In Soley Case

2017.11.23 ... FDCPA Overrides State Law Limitations Period And Charging Order Exclusivity In Wilhite

2017.11.23 ... Charging Order Not Exclusive Remedy For SMLLC Interest In Heckert

2017.11.17 ... Avrahamis Motion For Reconsideration Rolls Snake-Eyes In U.S. Tax Court

2017.11.04 ... Court Pours Out Lawsuit By CIC Services, LLC, And Ryan, LLC, To Stop Notice 2016-66

2017.10.31 ... Anti-SLAPP Statutory Oddities

2017.10.29 ... Extravagant Debtors Lose Their Right To Discharge The Tax Man In Feshbach

2017.10.19 ... Foster & Dunhill Saga Ends With Convictions And Donaldson Claiming To Be Too Fat To Jail

2017.10.11 ... Risk-Pooled 831(b) Captive Insurance Companies And Bad Practices Take A Beating In Avrahami

2017.09.30 ... Avrahamis Captive Manager Apparently Calling It Quits After Decision

2017.09.26 ... Consulting With An Asset Protection Attorney Is Proof Of Intent To Defeat Creditors Says 9th Circuit

2017.09.24 ... DOJ Investigating Offshore Life Insurance Companies For Selling Abusive PPLI Policies

2017.09.22 ... Is A Judgment Enforceable On Appeal?

2017.08.20 ... One Year Discovery Rule For Fraudulent Transfers Tested In PNC Bank Case

2017.08.13 ... Reverse Veil Piercing Given New Life In California Against A Delaware LLC In Curci

2017.08.09 ... Debtor Cannot Assert Homestead Exemption For Residence Owned By LLC In White

2017.07.29 ... Federal Court Whiffs On Analysis But Gets Charging Order Right Anyway In Peach REO

2017.07.22 ... Uniform Limited Liability Company Protected Series Act ( ULLCPSA ) Adopted By Uniform Law Commission

2017.07.19 ... Donaldson And Crithfield Found Guilty In Foster Dunhill Offshore Insurance Tax Evasion Case

2017.07.08 ... Two Ancient English Statutes And A Dispute Over Modern Voidable Transactions Law

2017.06.29 ... Colorado Supreme Court Affirms McClure Charging Order Decision And Causes Split With Other States

2017.06.25 ... Beware The Insane New Offshore Insurance Company Deals Sold By Some 831(b) Captive Managers

2017.06.24 ... Twenty Years Later And Marc Harris Organization Clients Are Still Being Prosecuted

2017.06.11 ... Alter Ego Cuts A Broad Swath Against Nevada Entities And Trusts In Transfirst

2017.05.30 ... The Good Faith Transferee Defined In Nautilus

2017.05.22 ... A Charging Order A Day Keeps The Receiver Away In Pajooh

2017.05.09 ... Distributions Due Or Made From A California Spendthrift Trust Available To Creditors In Carmack

2017.04.23 ... Last Gasp Attempt To Stop Notice 2016-66 Fails, May 1 Filing Deadline Approaches Quickly

2017.01.18 ... Fraudulent Transfer Law Trumps Tenancy By The Entireties In Knoll

2017.01.13 ... Minnesota Court Of Appeals Boots Clear And Convincing Anti-SLAPP Burden Of Proof

2016.12.31 ... IRS Extends Deadline For Compliance With Notice 2016-66 For 831(b) Captives To May 1, 2017

2016.12.27 ... The IRS Leaves A Lump Of Coal For Syndicated Conservation Easements In Notice 2017-10

2016.12.16 ... Charging Order Gives Creditor Priority Claim To Defeat A Receiver In Detroit Memorial

2016.12.06 ... Tax Zapper John Yin Gets Zapped By DOJ

2016.11.16 ... A Detailed Analysis of IRS Notice 2016-66 re 831(b) Captives

2016.11.13 ... Pretrial Memoranda Filed In Wilson 831(b) Captive Case Display IRS Attacks and Taxpayer Responses

2016.11.08 ... IRS Notice 2016-66 Regarding 831(b) Captive Insurance Companies Interpreted In Common English

2016.11.1 ... IRS Categorizes Certain 831(b) Captive Insurance Companies As A "Transaction Of Interest"

2016.09.30 ... The Silver Lining In The IRS's Proposed Rule Changes For Valuation Discounts

2016.09.29 ... Not All Captive Insurance Risk Pools Are Created Equally

2016.09.10 ... The 10-Year Lookback for Tax Liability Overrides State Fraudulent Transfer Law In Kipnis

2016.09.03 … Charging Order Exclusivity Proves To Be Not So Exclusive In DeVoll

2016.08.28 … Registered Agent Sanctioned $234,983 For Helping Ex-Husband Hide Documents Abroad In Sergeeva

2016.08.22 … Sacred Heart University Dodges Fraudulent Transfer Claim For Tuition Paid In Palladino

2016.08.14 … Fraudulent Transfers Into An ERISA Plan Can Be Unwound Despite The ERISA Protections

2016.07.30 … Fraudulent Transfer Defeats Tenancy By The Entireties Protection Of Sarasota Home In Major

2016.07.29 … Blixseth Loses On Marital Settlement Agreement and Fraudulent Transfers

2016.07.24 … Sham Mortgage Loan Flops In Pivaroff

2016.07.17 … Wyly's Private Annuities Not Exempt Under Texas Exemption Law Says Bankruptcy Court

2016.06.26 … Bellinger The Sequel: Poor Advocacy And Bad Rulings Lead To A Big Mess

2016.6.21 … The Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act Takes On Anonymous U.S. Entities

2016.06.14 … Bad Facts Make For Bad Charging Order Law In Arayos

2016.06.12 … How Olins ' Antique Collection Led Him To Prison For Cheating Civil Creditors

2016.05.30 … Tennessee Charging Order Not An Appealable Final Judgment (Just Yet) In Rogers Group

2016.05.22 … LLC Distributions Arising From The Debtor's Labors Subject To 25% Earnings Exemption In Alexander

2016.05.21 … Actual Fraud Includes Fraudulent Transfers In Bankruptcy Says Sotomayor

2016.5.15 … Customer Due Diligence Final Rule Announced By Treasury

2016.04.30 … 529 Savings Accounts Not Exempt In California Under O'Brien

2016.04.17 … Why No Americanos Yet In Mossack Fonseca's Panama Papers Revelations?

2016.04.07 … The Golf Channel Gets The Answer It Wants From The Texas Supreme Court

2016.04.03 … Panama Law Firm Mossack Fonseca Faces Leak Of 11 Million Documents Exposing Thousands Of Clients

2016.03.27 … Cayman Islands Financial Institutions Agree To Guilty Plea And Rat Out Their Depositors

2016.03.26 … Trustee Frustrated In Selling Debtor/Member's LLC Interest In Talbut

2016.03.25 … Estate Planners: Worry Not About The Uniform Voidable Transactions Act

2016.03.03 … Happy 75th Birthday to Helvering v. LeGierse

2016.02.28 … Repatriation Order for Offshore Assets Denied in Lewis

2016.02.21 … Does A Charging Order Lien Survive The Expiration Of The Judgment? Estate of Metzner

2016.02.19 … Scalia's Passing Probably Good News Creditors, Bad News For Debtors

2016.02.13 … Charging Orders, Jurisdiction, And The Non-Party Debtor In Spates

2016.01.31 … Drafting of the Proposed Series LLC Act Moves Towards July Test

2016.01.30 … Fraudulent Transfers In Hypnotic Taxi

2016.01.12 … The Asset Protection Year In Review 2015

2015.12.28 ... The California Private Retirement Plan: Separating Fact From Fiction

2015.12.19 ... Congress Makes 831(b) Captives Much Better And Deals With (Some) Abuses In 2015 Appropriations Bill

2015.12.08 ... 2015 Extender Bill May Throw Out 831(b) Captive Baby With The Bathwater

2015.11.30 ... Ghosts Of Tax Shelters Past And The Return Of The Listed Transactions

2015.11.29 ... The Sum Of All Fears About IRC 831(b) Tax Shelter Captives In Avrahami

2015.11.27 ... Silver Bars and Fraudulent Transfers in Rego Group

2015.11.22 ... U.S. Jurisdictions That Criminalize Fraudulent Transfers

2015.11.16 ... Attorney's Fees Deemed To Constitute Reasonably Equivalent Value In Magnum Steel

2015.11.12 ... Hiding Assets Offshore To Cheat Ex-Wife Leads To Criminal Conviction Of Dr. Brandner

2015.10.18 ... Charging Order Procedural Issues Confronted in Textron Financial

2015.10.14 ... Charging Order Jurisdictional And Foreign LLC Issues Become Clearer In Vision Marketing

2015.09.30 ... Minnesota Attorney Suspended For Assisting With A Fraudulent Transfer In Sheehan

2015.09.30 ... QPRT Deemed Revocable And Fails To Protect Home In Ferrante

2015.09.27 ... Residual Value Insurance Scores Big Win In U.S. Tax Court

2015.09.19 ... EarthGrains Turns Up The Heat With Utah Charging Order Against Nevada LLC

2015.08.29 ... A Call For A Uniform Anti-SLAPP Act

2015.08.26 ... Questionable Charging Order Priority Decision In Chase Bank Case

2015.08.22 ... Son of BOSS Leads To A Divorce And Fraudulent Transfer Troubles In Baker

2015.08.12 ... Donaldson And Crithfield Enter Guilty Pleas In Foster Dunhill Tax Fraud Case

2015.07.29 ... Cevdet Aksut -- Fraudulent Transfer Means Civil Conspiracy And Civil RICO Claims Against Law Firm

2015.07.27 ... The Fifth Circuit Declares A Mulligan In The Golf Channel Innocent Transferee Case

2015.07.20 ... Investor Control Dooms Private Placement Life Insurance Policy In Webber

2015.06.28 ... The Corporation Sole Scam - Still Going Strong

2015.06.27 ... Living Trust Loses To Creditors In Lewiston

2015.06.20 ... The LLC Member In Bankruptcy: Ehmann And Its Progeny

2015.06.19 ... Kettering Article On The UVTA , er, UFTA -2014, Provides The Definitive Guide To Changes

2015.06.11 … Treasury To Study Possible Abuses Of Small Captive Insurance Companies

2015.05.29 ... The SEC Gets High Living Debtor Sent To Jail In Greenberg

2015.05.27 ... Kekonas ' Punitive Damages Award For Fraudulent Transfers Gets Bigger On Appeal

2015.05.25 ... Estate Planning Bar Breathes Sigh Of Relief As Castellano Gets Turned Around

2015.04.26 ... The Fraudulent Transfer Laws Do Indeed Apply To Future Creditors

2015.04.24 ... Nevada Dynasty Trusts Strike Gold In Perpetuities in Bullion Monarch

2015.04.11 ... The Amazingly Confusing Life Insurance Exemption From Creditor Claims

2015.04.02 ... Nevada Supreme Court's Fraudulent Transfer Ruling Keeps Innocent Law Firm Out Of The Woods

2015.03.31 ... The Common But False Myth Of The Asset-For-LLC Interest Exchange In Asset Protection Planning

2015.03.29 ... The MacDaddy Of All Intra-Member Charging Order Versus Levy Disputes In Voll

2015.03.17 ... The Fifth Circuit Slices The Golf Channel Into The Pond

2015.03.14 ... Medici Gambles At The Venetian But It Is The Venetian Who Gets Played

2015.02.26 ... Of Drones and Debtors

2015.02.21 ... Mahalo To Charging Order Issued Against Interests In Out-Of-State Non-Party LLCs

2015.02.18 ... Florida Charging Order Foreclosure Of A Nevis LLC In Barber

2015.02.15 ... Utah Supreme Court Decides Conflict-Of-Laws Issue In Revoking Dahl

2015.01.28 ... Lenders Beware! Notice Of The Borrower's Trust Planning Can Start A Statute of Limitations Running

2015.01.26 ... A Short History Of Asset Protection Trust Law

2015.01.16 ... Debtor's Pre-Petition Transfers Result In Denial Of Discharge In Drumm

2015.01.13 ... Secrecy Does Not An Asset Protection Plan Make

2014.12.31 ... The Asset Protection Year in Review 2014

2014.12.21 ... Bankruptcy Considerations In Asset Protection Planning

2014.12.19 ... Denman Creates Confusion For Bankrupt Debtor's Interest In LLC

2014.12.01 ... Single-Member LLC's Veil Pierced In Greenhunter

2014.11.18 ... Positive Health Of The Fraudulent Transferee's Good Faith Defense

2014.11.12 ... Beware The Estate Planning Aggregators And Their Planning Blueprints

2014.11.01 ... Securitas Secures Big Win For Captive Insurance In U.S. Tax Court

2014.11.01 ... The Insolvent Debtor - Are Charity And Family Gifts Still Possible?

2014.10.26 ... Living Expenses Of No Utility To Creditors In Schlussel

2014.10.23 ... Hiding Income In Company Nixes Discharges In Hiett

2014.10.09 ... Dilution Of Corporate Stock As A Fraudulent Transfer In Antonello

2014.10.6 ... Albright Relief Applied To Personal Services LLC In Re Cleveland

2014.09.28 ... Third Circuit Resolves Competing Bankruptcy Estates In Allen

2014.09.24 ... Bitcoin Savings & Trust Comes Up $40 Million Short On The Trust Part

2014.09.18 ... IRS Launches Promoter Audits Of Captive Managers Suspected Of Abusive Practices

2014.09.17 ... Weed Investments Go Up In Smoke, Says SEC

2014.08.31 ... The Uniform Voidable Transactions Act – New Section 11 and Series LLCs

2014.08.23 ... Power of Appointment Causes Bankruptcy Estate Inclusion in Behan

2014.08.18 ... Delaware Anti-Suit Injunction Nixed As To Dynasty Trust In Kloiber

2014.08.11 ... Trust Beneficiary Checkmated By Bankruptcy Code 548(e) In Castellano

2014.07.27 ... The Uniform Voidable Transaction Act And The Shifting Of Burdens

2014.07.22 ... The Uniform Voidable Transactions Act and Conflict of Laws

2014.07.18 ... The Uniform Voidable Transactions Act – What’s With The Name Change?

2014.07.02 ... Collection South Of The Border Against Seashore Village Held In Fideicomiso Trust

2014.06.21 ... The Charging Order Is Wear It’s At, LLC, In Intra-Member Dispute

2014.06.18 ... Attorney Suspended For Violating Attachment Order In Benson

2014.06.15 ... The Series LLC And The Plight Of Unsecured Creditors

2014.06.12 ... Inherited IRA Not Exempt From Creditors In Bankruptcy, Says Sotomayor

2014.05.31 ... Foreign Asset Protection Trust Scores A Victory In Bellinger

2014.05.26 ... The ‘I Lost It At The Casino’ Defense Fails Again In Tate

2014.05.16 ... SwissPartner’s Offshore Life Insurance Deal Finally Falls To Earth

2014.05.03 ... The Asset Protection Kit Scam Continues To Lure Suckers

2014.04.21 ... Doctor Tries To Cheat Ex-Wife And Impossibility Defense Flops Again In Hissa

2014.04.20 ... Life Insurance and the 831(b) Captive Insurance Company – Wait For The Test Case Before Signing Up

2014.4.12 ... Florida Says No Turnover Orders Against Foreign Assets In Sargent

2014.03.31 ... Iowa Attorney Narrowly Dodges Bar Complaint For Murderer's Fraudulent Transfers

2014.03.27 ... The IRS Discloses The 953(d) Trapdoor For Offshore Captives

2014.03.17 ... IRS Noose Starting To Tighten On Sham Risk Pools

2014.03.06 ... Scalia Throws Bankruptcy Surcharging To The Mat

2014.02.27 ... Connecticut Court Shanghais Out-Of-State LLCs With Charging Orders

2014.02.25 ... AsiaTrust Gets Hauled Into The California Courts

2014.02.21 ... Rent-A-Center Creates A Captive Insurance Legacy In Tax Court

2014.02.06 ... A Wedding And The Writ Of Ne Exeat Republica

2014.01.30 ... Charging Orders And The Contemptuous Partnership

2014.01.22 ... The $867 Dispute Becomes An $883,654 Judgment In Ravet

2014.01.18 ... Attorney's Time Slips Slip Up Post-Judgment Attempts To Defraud Creditors In Frankel

2014.01.05 ... It's Time To Change Your Passwords And Here's How

2013.12.28 ... The High-Flying Debtor Gets His Wings Clipped In Newcomer

2013.12.26 ... Series LLC And The Abyss Of The Unknowns

2013.12.19 ... Two Year Suspension For California Attorney Who Engaged In Fraudulent Transfer In Morris

2013.12.08 ... Grossman And The Impossibly Difficult Impossibility Defense

2013.11.30 ... Protecting The Downstream Entities Against The Upstream Ones: Huber II

2013.11.24 ... Identical Twins: The LLC-2 Tax Shelter Takes Over Where the SC-2 Tax Shelter Left Off

2013.11.20 ... The Trust Protector Idea Isn't Just For Trusts

2013.11.16 ... Cell Captives And The Recycling Of Capital

2013.10.30 ... Good Faith Transferees And The Perils Of Third-Party Payers

2013.10.28 ... The Trust Protector As Fiduciary, And Why Maybe That Is A Bad Idea

2013.10.23 ... Fake Swedish Bank On Trial After Elaborate Scheme Leaves Investors With Nothing

2013.10.15 ... Hawaiian Fraudulent Transferee Hangs Ten To Punitive Damages

2013.09.30 ... After False Start, The Uniform Asset-Freezing Orders Act Is Now Ready To Roll

2013.09.28 ... Manager Complaints Bubble To Surface Regarding Delaware Captive Insurance Companies

2013.09.23 ... Fraudulent Transfers Trigger Crime-Fraud Exception And $10 Million Punitive Damages In Cutuli

2013.09.21 ... IRS Filling The Pipeline With Captive Insurance Cases And Focusing On Dubious Practices

2013.08.30 ... One-Year Vacation From Practice For Attorney Who Fraudulently Transferred Assets

2013.08.26 ... Attorney Disbarred For Hiding Assets For The Missus

2013.08.16 ... No Jurisdiction Needed Over LLC Which Interests Were Charged In Rockstone Capital

2013.08.10 ... Ten Favorite Things About Captive Insurance Companies

2013.07.29 ... Will Your Malpractice Insurance Burn Up When You Need It?

2013.07.28 ... Tax Shelters, Nebraska Hurricanes And Other Captive Insurance Mistakes

2013.07.10 ... Why Dahl Doesn't Support The Viability Of Domestic Asset Protection Trusts

2013.07.02 ... Bankrupt Milwaukee Archdiocese Apparently Caught In Fraudulent Transfer

2013.06.30 ... Asset Protection Planning And California Rule Of Professional Conduct 3-210

2013.06.27 ... Before Marriage, Same Sex Couples Need Prenupts

2013.06.23 ... Foster and Dunhill Scheme Ends In Denial Of Deductions And Indictments For Bogus Insurance Tax Shelter

2013.06.09 ... Texas Adopts Captive Insurance Legislation But Beware

2013.05.31 ... Are Special Power of Appointment Trusts And Hybrid Trusts 'Similar Devices' To Self-Settled Trusts?

2013.05.22 ... Domestic Asset Protection Trust Blows Up Bigger Than Alaska In Huber Case

2013.05.11 ... Tenth Circuit Affirms Fraudulent Transfer Judgment Against Debtor's Wife And Her Cook Islands Trust

2013.05.10 ... Discussion Of Offshore Trusts Leads To Asset Freeze In Las Vegas

2013.04.29 ... The Misunderstood Charging Order

2013.04.27 ... Will Declaratory Judgment Actions Be The Savior Of Domestic Asset Protection Trusts? Probably Not

2013.04.25 ... The One Foreign Asset Protection Trust 'Win' Turns Out To Be A Dud

2013.04.23 ... Fraudulent Transfer Leads To Punitive Damages And Attorney's Fees Equal To Six Times The Amount Of The Underlying Judgment In Renbolt

2013.03.31 ... Bill 'Bulletproof A$$et Protection' Reed's Complex Plan Pierced By Nominee And Alter Ego Theories

2013.03.26 ... New Uniform Asset-Freezing Orders Act Has Rocky Start In Colorado

2013.03.25 ... Cyprus And The Death Of An Offshore Haven

2013.03.22 ... What The Debtor Received In Return Is Key To Fraudulent Transfer Value Analysis

2013.02.27 ... Asset Protection Planning In Anticipation Of Medicaid Fails In Woodworth Case

2013.02.27 ... Nevada Corporation Solely Owned By California Resident Dodges California Taxes

2013.02.24 ... Simply Ignoring Court Orders Is Not The Best Strategy

2013.02.14 ... Into The Million-Mile Frequent Flyer Doughnut Hole I Fall

2013.01.31 ... Existence Of Claim Renders Some Clients Seeking Asset Protection Effectively Dead On Arrival

2013.01.30 ... Interspousal Transfers Without Value To Avoid Personal Guarantee Voided As Fraudulent Transfers In Lilly

2013.01.28 ... Marciano - Bankruptcy Debtor Gets Bench Warrant For Contempt After Impossibility Defense Flops

2013.01.19 ... Kremen -- Failure To Prove Fraudulent Transfer

2012.12.31 ... Cohen - Lawyer's Transfer Of Wages To Entireties Account Only Partially Protected From Creditor When Fraudulently Transferred

2012.12.30 ... Blixseth - Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel Rules Nevada Is Proper Venue For Involuntary Bankruptcy Against Former Billionaire Because Holding Companies Formed There

2012.12.25 ... Zukerkorn -- Possible Bad News For Domestic Asset Protection Trusts In Conflict-Of-Laws Dispute

2012.11.30 ... Yerushalmi - Old And Cold QPRT Stands Up To Alter Ego Challenge In Bankruptcy Adversary Proceeding

2012.11.29 ... Rush University -- Transfers To A Cook Island Trust Held Per Se Fraudulent By Illinois Supreme Court

2012.11.29 ... Kilker - Asset Protection Intent In Making Transfers To Protect Against Future Creditors Means Disaster When Creditor Appears

2012.11.24 ... Florida Enforcement Of Illinois Judgment In Weiss Case Highlights Interstate Enforcement Issue

2012.11.12 ... Fear Not Windows 8, But Embrace It

2012.10.31 ... Peake -- Kansas Homestead, Reverse Mortgages and the Perils of 522(p)

2012.10.31 ... Kenrob Information - The IRS Fights Off Fraudulent Transfer Claim For Debtor S-Corporation's Tax Reimbursements To Shareholders

2012.10.29 ... Elephants and Donkeys Find Unhappiness In Sir Scam-A-Lot's Court

2012.10.20 ... Goldberg - Affidavit of Solvency Allows Asset Protection Attorney To Keep Fees Against Fraudulent Transfer Claim

2012.09.30 ... Pearl -- Transfers to Revocable Trusts Were Not Fraudulent Transfers As To Creditors Of The Settlor

2012.09.14 ... Of Indian Summer, Shredders, and Trash Pulls

2012.08.31 ... Broughton -- Rented Assets And Bogus Offshore Insurance Companies

2012.08.29 ... Kendall: Distressed Debtor's Late Transfers Set Aside As Fraudulent Transfers In Bankruptcy

2012.08.25 ... Trust Protectors -- What They Are And Why Probably Every Trust Should Have One

2012.08.18 ... Malley: Debtor's Willful Non-Disclosure Of Asset Leads to Surcharge Of A Different Exempt Asset

2012.07.31 ... Howrey: When The Sinking Ship Seeks The Cheese Back From The Fleeing Rats

2012.7.30 ... You Can't Fix Stupid: The Iraqi Dinar Scam Lives

2012.07.27 ... Jonas: Receiver Appointed By Montana Court To Take Control Of LCC Whose Interests Had Been Charged

2012.07.16 ... Thomas: Pre-Bankruptcy Exemption Planning Survives And An IRA Is A Self-Settled Trust Or Similar Device

2012.06.30 ... Inman: Are Charging Orders Entitled To Full Faith & Credit?

2012.06.23 ... Foreclosure, Deficiency Judgments and the Perils of Anti-Deficiency Statutes

2012.06.22 ... Owner Of Debtor LLC Goes To Jail For Contempt For Interfering With Foreclosure Sale

2012.06.03 ... Webb & Carey: When Control Is Bad -- Receiver Uses Debtors' Controlling Interests In Partnerships To Get At Partnership Assets

2012.05.26 ... Wilson: Surcharge Of Debtor's Exempt Property Based On Debtor's Contempt In Refusing To Assist Trustee In Sale Of Property

2012.05.25 ... Miske : The Innocent General Partner Tagged With Liability For Losses Due To Misdeeds Of Another General Partner

2012.05.20 ... Community Property and Creditor-Debtor Law Explained

2012.05.08 ... Fraudulent Transfer Leads To Punitive Damages Award In California

2012.04.30 ... Salahi: Control Over Trust Assets Neuters Spendthrift Trust Provisions In Virginia Bankruptcy Case

2012.04.30 ... Serio: Corporate Veil Of Single-Member LLC Holds Up In Maryland To Protect Owner In Absence Of Fraud

2012.04.02 ... Weitz: New York Superior Court Holds That It Has Jurisdiction Over A Cook Islands Trustee For Fraudulent Transfers

2012.03.31 ... Speedway Motorsports: Death Benefit From Life Insurance Survives Creditor's Claim That The Premiums Were The Proceeds Of Fraud

2012.03.17 ... Brandner : Alaska Plastic Surgeon Faces Forfeiture Of $4.656 Million For Undisclosed Offshore Account Used To Attempt To Cheat Ex-Wife

2012.03.16 ... McGough: Debtors' Charitable Giving Limited To 15% Of Gross Income In Bankruptcy

2012.03.06 ... Weddell: Nevada Supreme Court Restricts Charging Order To Debtor's Economic Interests Only

2012.02.16 ... Danielo : California's First Action Rule No Defense Against Home Equity Line Of Credit For Underwater Property

2012.02.09 ... Sperl : Offshore Reinsurance Scheme And Other Tax Evasion Nets Accountant 36 Months

2012.02.05 ... Martin: The Inherent Dangers Of The Single Member LLC And Alter Ego Veil Piercing

2012.01.31 ... Gordon: Debtor Asserts Concepts Of Slavery And Peonage To Try To Avoid Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

2012.01.30 ... In Naming Trusts And Entities, Quit Using The Client's Name!

2012.01.14 ... Royal Bank of Canada: Separate Entity Rule Survives As To Restraining Order Served On Manhattan Branch For Debtor's Toronto Accounts

2011.12.28 ... The Real McCoy: Living Trust Provides Spendthrift Protection To Assets Of Beneficiary In Bankruptcy

2011.12.26 ... Kornman : The Impossibility Defense and the Self-Created Impossibility Exception

2011.12.23 ... Cohen: Temporary Restraining Order Issued Against Those Assisting Debtor With Fraudulent Transfers

2011.12.13 ... Cutter: Too Much Control And Right To Access Neuters California Irrevocable Spendthrift Trust As An Asset Protection Trust

2011.11.22 ... Quaid Redux: Original Settlor's Power To Revoke Protects Assets In Florida Trust

2011.11.15 ... Easy Chart Regarding Effectiveness Of Asset Protection Trusts

2011.11.05 ... Tucker: Involuntary Bankruptcy Just Not That Difficult For Creditors

2011.10.30 ... Hot New Do-Nothing Strategy Draws Attention In Asset Protection Planning As Being 99% Effective

2011.10.23 ... Smith: Cook Islands Asset Protection Trust Results In Special Circumstances Allowing Less-Than-Three Creditors Involuntary Bankruptcy Petition

2011.10.21 ... Peter Rogan And Attorney Fred Cuppy Indicted For Post-Claim Asset Protection Planning - Attorney Sued For Civil RICO - Trust Held Alter Ego Of Settlor

2011.10.19 ... Mortensen: Alaska Asset Protection Trust Funded By Solvent Settlor Completely Fails To Protect Assets In Bankruptcy Against Future Creditors

2011.10.13 ... The Sad Last Ballad of Jerry Lynn Williams: Divorce Decree Fails To Defeat Fraudulent Transfer Action

2011.10.01 ... The Washington Woes Of Michael Mastro And Friends

2011.09.30 ... Undercapitalization Again: Owner Of Sole Shareholder Corporation Gets Aced On Veil Piercing Claim At The U.S. Open

2011.09.27 ... Schofield-Johnson: Husband's Failed Attempt To Shield Assets From The IRS By Transferring To Wife Who Transferred To An LLC

2011.09.24 ... 'Tis The Season For Tax Shelters, Fa La La La La And Grab Your Wallet

2011.09.20 ... Racsko : Bankruptcy Trustee Of Mother Can Invade Her Children's Trust On Fraudulent Transfer Grounds

2011.08.25 ... KKR, Bruno's, the Fiduciary Shield Doctrine, and the Long Arm of Alabama

2011.08.24 ... Why Do Creditors Win In Most Of The Reported Asset Protection Cases?

2011.08.20 ... Khashoggi: Margin Scheme Leads Personal Liability For True Beneficial Owner Under Alter Ego Theory; Undercapitalization and Domination

2011.08.19 ... Noack: The Single Member LLC, Alter Ego, and Undercapitalization

2011.08.14 ... Murphy: Attempts To Dodge Personal Guarantees Means Misery For All Involved

2011.08.13 ... Dad's Looting Of Corporation By Making Gifts To His Kids Gets Them Caught Up In Fraudulent Transfers

2011.08.10 ... Buffa's Bad Tuna: Debtor Owning 99% Of LLC Attempts To Dodge Charging Order By Paying Oversized Salary To Wife

2011.08.01 ... As An Asset Protection Trust, Henry's Trust Was A Notable Failure

2011.07.31 ... Ten Rules For Asset Protection Planning

2011.07.31 ... Charging Orders and K.O.'d by the K-1]] ... Not

2011.07.24 ... Bankruptcy Opinion In Re Patel Illustrates Why Post-Liability Planning Can Be A Very Bad Idea

2011.07.22 ... Hawaii Updates Its Domestic Asset Protection Trust Legislation -- Should You Care?