Sunday, August 31, 2014

Great Tips For Asset Protection Planning

By Marlene Blevins


While one is working or is in business, he will accumulate assets that will be able to help make his life more comfortable. Now there will be times when predators from the outside will try to attack his assets in order to legally claim it and they will succeed if he does not protect them properly. Now in order to do this, he would need to do some asset protection planning.

Now probably the first rule that a lot of asset management consultants would state would be to increase liability insurance. Now this will be one of the front lines that can protect one from legal claims that people can state against him. Of course he has to make sure that the insurance policy will cover the situations that may possibly harm his assets otherwise he will have no way to defend himself.

Now a tip for people who are in business would be to make sure that they would always separate their business assets and their personal assets. Now in this type of scenario, one is protecting himself just in case a predator may want to attack his business and go up to his personal as well. If he separates them from each other, then the predator will not likely be able to touch the personal ones.

Now it is a common practices for newlyweds to open up a joint account wherein both of the spouses can access the money. Although this is idea for practical and budgeting purposes, it is not a good idea if one would want to try to protect himself. So one way to solve this issue would be to have a joint account but also a separate account for personal use.

Also, another rule when having joint accounts would be to make sure that the balance is as low as possible. So just in case the one sharing the joint account would want to attack, at least not much will be taken from the joint account if ever. This would usually be done if one would get married and would have a joint account with his spouse.

Now if one has a property that he is renting out to tenants, he must also be vigilant in protecting his personal assets. Now in order to do so, he has to first create a business or a corporation that would take over the managing of the rentals instead of him. So in the event that a tenant attacks him, the tenant may only go as far as the assets of the business.

Now do remember that in asset protection, using bankruptcy as a last resort is not advisable. True declaring bankruptcy may take away all of the debts but of course one will still have his assets at risk. So never try to use that method unless there is nothing more to do.

So if one would want to protect all of his assets, he must take note of these things. Now he has to act fast and early if he would want to put up guards. If he acts late, then someone might already be plotting against him.




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