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How to Protect Your Assets from Marriage and Divorce

April 19, 2022Asset Protection

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To maximize the value of the assets you pass down when the time comes, your estate plan should include tools and strategies that actively protect and grow your assets while you are alive. To do that, you need to recognize potential threats to your assets. A Grand Forks asset protection attorney at German Law explains how to protect your assets from marriage and divorce. How Can Divorce Threaten My Assets? Unfortunately, the divorce rate for first marriages in the United States has hovered … [Read more...] about How to Protect Your Assets from Marriage and Divorce

What Does an Asset Protection Lawyer Do?

November 20, 2018Asset Protection

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Over the course of your lifetime, you will likely work hard and invest wisely in an effort to amass a respectable asset portfolio. If all goes well, you will have sufficient assets to live comfortably during your retirement years with something left over to pass down to your children and/or grandchildren. While acquiring assets is certainly important, protecting those assets should be of equal importance. An asset protection lawyer can help you protect your estate assets using a variety of asset … [Read more...] about What Does an Asset Protection Lawyer Do?

Beware the Squandering Beneficiary

June 21, 2018Asset Protection

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If you are fortunate enough to be able to gift assets to loved ones, either during your lifetime or after you are gone, you undoubtedly hope that those assets will be appreciated and protected. Unfortunately, that is not always what happens. The Grand Forks asset protection attorneys at German Law warn about the squandering beneficiary. The good news is that with careful estate planning a squandering beneficiary cannot squander too much of your assets! Gifting Basics For many people, one of … [Read more...] about Beware the Squandering Beneficiary

Learn About Medicaid Gifts

August 31, 2017Asset Protection, General

At some point during your retirement years there is a very good chance you (and/or your spouse) will need long-term care. There is also a good chance that you will need to qualify for Medicaid benefits in order to cover the high cost of that care. Qualifying for Medicaid can be a complicated process given the complex eligibility guidelines. The asset transfer rules(rules about Medicaid gifts) in particular, are a source of much confusion for applicants. While it is always best to consult with an … [Read more...] about Learn About Medicaid Gifts

How Does an Asset Protection Trust Work?

August 1, 2017Asset Protection

At the heart of any well thought out estate plan should be a roadmap for the distribution of estate assets to loved ones upon the death of the individual creating the plan. Your plan, for example, likely includes a Last Will and Testament as the foundation from which additional estate planning tools and strategies have grown over the years. As your estate has grown and increased in value, you have probably updated and revised your estate plan to account for that growth. At some point in time, … [Read more...] about How Does an Asset Protection Trust Work?

Explaining “Countable Resources”

June 27, 2017Asset Protection

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Estate planning, when done correctly, should be comprehensive in nature. As such, your estate plan should cover a number of inter-related goals and objectives all in one cohesive plan. One estate planning component you will likely want to consider as you get older is Medicaid planning. One reason you may need to include Medicaid planning in your estate plan is that eligibility for benefits depends, in part, on the value of your “countable resources.”  To ensure that you understand the need for … [Read more...] about Explaining “Countable Resources”

Top 3 Asset Protection Strategies

March 2, 2017Asset Protection

Like just about everyone, you undoubtedly want to protect the assets you have worked hard to acquire. Whether you are just starting to build up your asset portfolio, are at the height of your investment years, or are no longer actively building your asset portfolio because you are heading into retirement, you certainly do not want to put the assets you have at risk. Unfortunately, you may be doing just that in ways you haven’t thought about before now. The good news is that there are ways you … [Read more...] about Top 3 Asset Protection Strategies

Asset Protection Tips

February 7, 2017Asset Protection

A well thought out estate plan should do much more than simply create a roadmap for the distribution of your estate assets when you are gone. In order to ensure that there are assets left to distribute when you are gone, your plan should also focus on protecting and growing your assets while you are alive as well. To do that, asset protection should be included as a primary objective within your plan. As is always the case, the best way to be certain that your assets are properly protected is to … [Read more...] about Asset Protection Tips

3 Common Asset Protection Strategies

November 22, 2016Asset Protection

For most people, at least part of the purpose of creating an estate plan is to ensure that their estate assets are available to provide for loved ones after they are gone. Of course, in order for your estate assets to provide for loved ones in your absence, you need to protect those assets while you are still here. With that in mind, you may choose to include asset protection strategies in your comprehensive estate plan. Because no two estates include the same assets or the same potential … [Read more...] about 3 Common Asset Protection Strategies

Can a Living Trust Help with Asset Protection?

June 7, 2016Asset Protection

Most likely, one of the  major reasons you decided to sit down and  create an estate plan is to ensure that loved ones are financially secure should something happen to you. You want to make sure that you assets are passed down and/or available to continue to provide for loved ones in your absence. Of course, that presumes you have assets left to pass down when you die. One way to increase the likelihood that you will still have substantial assets left to pass down is to also include asset … [Read more...] about Can a Living Trust Help with Asset Protection?

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