Asset Protection That Can Really Work For You

Nevada leads our nation in enacting state laws to protect your assets from economic predators. Nevada and out-of-state residents can now bulletproof their assets from most creditor claims!

Do you really need asset protection? Americans file approximately 90 million lawsuits each year in the United States; that's one lawsuit filed every three seconds! You thus have nearly a one in three chance of being sued every year. In other words, you worked hard for your assets, other people want them, and our court system provides an easy way for people to take them away from you.

YOUR CORPORATE ARMY

Asset Protection #1 - The Nevada Business Entity

We provides several asset protection weapons for business owners and investors. Such weapons include a Nevada "C" and "S" Corporation, Limited Liability Company, and a Family Limited Partnership. These business entities limit most creditors' claims to your "business" assets. Thus, your family's "personal" assets remain safe and secure.

Even better, We can structure your Nevada corporation so that no one knows you even own and control it. How? Nevada only requires a corporation to file a public record of its officers, directors, and agent for service. But the true owner of a corporation is the share holder()/s Thus, by appointing We as your nominee officer, director, and agent for service, then appointing yourself as the sole shareholder, your name will not appear on any public record.

Asset Protection #2 - The Nevada Spendthrift Trust

In 1999, the Nevada Legislature amended state statute 166, and thus created one of the most powerful asset protection weapons available in our country.

Here's how it works: We, through a strategic alliance with legal counsel, will first create a written trust, designating yourself and your family as "beneficiaries." You also name yourself as the "investment" trustee, and a Nevada resident, other than your blood relative, as the "distribution" trustee. We can serve as this distribution trustee. Second, We canopen a bank or financial brokerage account in Nevada with your trust as the owner, then place your investment assets inside your trust. Third, We can publish written notice of your trust in a local newspaper, then wait two years, after which, your assets will be safeguarded against most creditors.

Asset Protection #3- Offshore Islands Business or Trust

Today, more than 5 trillion dollars of U.S. citizen's money lies offshore in such places as the Bahamas, Cooke Islands, and Switzerland. Joining these Americans are banks such as Citicorp, Barclays, and BankAmerica; corporations like McDonald's, Wal-Mart, and Nike; and countless millionaires, including Sir John Templeton and Rupert Murdoch.

Many Americans have created multi-layered suits of armor around their hard-earned assets. For example, We through a strategic alliance with legal counsel, might create a Nevada Business Entity owned by a Nevada Spendthrift Trust that is linked to a Nevis Limited Liability Company owned by a Cooke Islands Trust. You alone control the assets in this plan until the need arises to send these assets offshore where the U.S. courts have no jurisdictional power or reach.

Don't Delay your Plan Any Longer Than You have Already!

Whether you are a professional, small-business owner, or simply someone who has built up a nice little financial nest-egg for your retirement and children's education, you should consider taking advantage of asset protection weapons. They're all perfectly legal, and perfectly smart!

But before you begin, one word of caution. Asset protection devices will not protect you from claims arising from your intentional acts, family support obligations, or any asset conveyance to avoid an existing known creditor. And nothing short of a nuclear holocaust will stop the IRS!

So, build your suit of armor before trouble comes your way. And always remember, if you don't have an asset protection plan, you still have a plan; you've simply planned to allow someone to take your hard-earned assets away from you.

Don't delay! Before it's too late, call us for a free consultation and cost estimate.

Real Corporations and What the Textbooks Say

Most corporations formed today are small businesses. In fact, many only have one person as the sole shareholder, director, and officer. The main reasons for people to incorporate today are liability protection and tax advantages which can only be gained through the corpora y. In this section we will look at the liability protection incorporating can offer. We'll also take a look at why many accountants, and even lawyers, give fatally flawed advice like, "don't incorporate until you're making at least $50,000 a year." Then we'll look at the myths and misconceptions such advice is founded upon. When you are through with this information you'll know why to incorporate. Plus, you'll know how to get protection and savings most people only wish for.

Incorporating is the Key to Limited Liability and Personal Protection

As you know, a corporation is a legal person. As a legal person it is separate from its stockholders, its officers, its directors, and its employees. This means if a corporation is sued, all it can lose is what it has. People who sue the corporation cannot attach the assets of the individual Shareholder. The corporation limits the liability of the individual person who is associated with it to the extent of his actual investment in the company.

Let's say you set up a corporation, a legal person. Let's say you put $10,000 into that separate legal person in exchange for stock. You now own stock in the corporation and the corporation has $10,000. Now let's say the corporation you formed takes $7,000 and buys a vehicle to use in the corporate business. Let's say it takes the rest of the money and hires an employee. You tell your corporate employee to take the corporate vehicle and go run an errand. Your trusty employee goes out with the corporate vehicle and proceeds to run over someone. Now you have a problem, because the negligence of that employee will be imputed to the corporation. It almost always is, and you will probably be no exception.

The good news is you can rest a lot easier than many people in this situation, because you had the foresight to incorporate your business. All that you have at risk is the $7,000 car and a couple of thousand dollars in cash. Not bad when you consider all of your personal assets would be on the line otherwise.

A wrongful death lawsuit such as the one that would result in our example could easily run into millions of dollars, exceeding insurance policy limitations and coverage. A lawsuit like this would ruin most people; Incorporation is needed protection. We cannot urge people strongly enough to be prepared. Prepare for the worse, and hope for the best. There are also lawsuits that come from employees to consider, such as wrongful termination, discrimination or sexual harassment.

There are customers who could sue for service failures, loss profits, damage to reputation, slander, and more. There are suppliers who could sue, people who just walk across your yard and slip or step into a hole, can sue. The possibilities go on and on.

Do These Lawsuits Happen In Your World?

According to the National Center for State Courts over 15,000 civil suites are filed in some years. This trend is continuing. According to Jack Farls, President of the National Federation of Independent Businesses, in an article printed in "The Chronicle" of Centralia, Washington on May 19, 1995, "the toll of just one lawsuit can be so great that guilty or innocent, many firms shut their doors, lay-off their employees and vanish into legal graveyards." Everyone knows about the famous multi-million dollar McDonald's hot coffee suit. In the months since that jury award, dozens of similar suits have been filed against restaurant owners.

Sexual harassment is more and more a danger faced by small businesses. Recently, Wal-mart was on the receiving end of a $50 million sexual harassment verdict from a Jefferson City, Missouri jury.

Still other outrageous lawsuits fill today's newspapers. According to an article in the Harrington, Texas "Valley Morning Star" from August 7, 1995, a Texas Wal-mart store was charged with a $5.5 million jury verdict because it allegedly sold .22 caliber bullets to a 19 year old teen, who put them into a pistol that was accidentally discharged on a fishing trip.

Even more outrageous is the case involving an Alabama physician who purchased a brand new black BMW. The physician took the BMW into a body shop to have it "gussied up" and the body shop discovered that the car had been previously painted. Since it had been slightly damaged in shipment, BMW repainted the car. The physician, doing what seems to be all the rage, sued BMW and as a result won $4,000 in compensatory damages and $4 million in punitive damages because his car had been painted twice. The examples of ridiculous and outrageous lawsuits go on and on. The fact of life in the 90s is that this trend is real and it could happen to you.

The courts are full of real life examples of huge lawsuits. If you are unincorporated and you fire an employee, or just get one upset, you could be facing a lawsuit for wrongful termination and/or intentional infliction of emotional distress, emotional damage, breach of covenant of good faith and fair dealing, and on and on. The lawsuit could not only take business assets but personal assets of yours as well. Incorporating would limit your liability and protect you.

It's a risky world out there in business. incorporating does not eliminate lawsuits, but it cuts down on a person's deep pockets. Generally, all an incorporated business risks is "what' is in the that corporation". The personal assets of Shareholders are not at risk, valuable protection in a litigious, dangerous world.

Why should a business person risk all of his own assets he has spent a lifetime building up? Why should he risk his family's welfare? There's no good reason, especially when they can do a simple thing like incorporating to limit their exposure. It's such a simple, economical process and yet it's overlooked so often or put off until it's too late.

Two Corporations for Liability Protection (Double Your Protection)?

If one corporation is good, are two corporations better? Many times yes. As the litigation explosion heats up, many business people are finding that with two corporations they can separate their risks and minimize their lawsuit exposure.

Let's say you have two business locations. Put them into separate corporations and run each as a separa y. This has the desirable effect of limiting the potential for loss in any one business location to that one location. The other business locations are not at risk. Other business people go even further. They'll set up two corporations, one corporation which conducts a certain business enterprise, and the other business which leases it a great deal of its assets. The chances of the leasing corporation being sued are slim since its main customer is the other corporation which you still own. If the lessee corporation is sued, while there are some assets at risk the bulk of the assets are owned by another company that is not subject to the suit.

Also consider the possibility of putting different assets into different corporations to spread out the risk. For example, let's say you own multiple apartment buildings. Put each apartment building into a separate corporation, that way, if a tenant living in one apartment building sues, that suit is brought against the corporation that only owns one apartment building. Only one apartment building is at risk and the others are secure. When you consider it, this is like buying awfully cheap insurance that will protect your assets.

What About Off-Shore Corporations?

The is a growing interest in the U.S. concerning the use of offshore corporations, banking and money strategies. The reasons are fundamental:

1. The increasingly litigious nature of our society,
2. An evident decrease respect for personal property and
3. An ever growing erosion of personal, business and financial privacy.

Structured properly, the utilization of a foreign corporation for your existing business needs can greatly advance your business interests and provide many legal means by which you can reclaim your rights and begin to live a more private, secure and financially rewarding life.

In recent years, Caribbean jurisdictions have taken the lead as the most attractive and convenient offshore corporate domiciles. The support of their governments in development and administration provides the international business owner and investor with total cooperation and, in many cases, a very favorable tax climate specifically structured to attract foreign investors.

The advantages of Nevis, the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands and the British Virgin Islands provide for a stable, convenient and discreet domicile to carry out business activity when the use of an offshore tax haven would be beneficial or necessary.