Asset Protection in Florida (2008)
The culmination of a four-year development project undertaken by the Asset Preservation Committee of the Florida Bar Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section
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Publisher :Florida Bar Continuing Legal Education
Format: Hardbound, 390 pages
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ISBN: 9781422439913
2008
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The latest title from The Florida Bar covers all facets of asset preservation for Florida residents. The manual provides comprehensive analysis of the many steps available to protect assets from creditors? claims, both during lifetime and at death. The ethical aspects of advising clients on asset protection issues are the subject of the introductory chapter. Among the many other topics covered are homestead, trusts (both domestic and offshore), business planning, planning for dissolution of marriage, and protection of retirement and education accounts. Bankruptcy issues and tax planning are prominently featured throughout the text.
Visit our Florida Bar Continuing Legal Education Publications website for a complete list of The Bar?s titles. This new title, current through the 2008 Florida legislative session:
- Features coverage of all facets of asset protection planning, both for assets held during life and those transferred at death.
- Includes two chapters on planning when homestead is an asset:
- Protection of the homestead from forced sale, with extensive treatment of changes by the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005.
- Alienation and devise of the homestead with coverage of ad valorem taxation, documentary stamp taxes, and tax apportionment issues. - Covers protection of retirement plans, joint assets, and education plans.
- Includes chapter on domestic trusts with detailed discussion of the most recent changes to the Florida Trust Code.
- Illustrates the steps to take on preservation of assets in a dissolution of marriage proceeding.
- Discusses asset preservation opportunities available through the creation of business entities.
- Provides complete coverage of foreign trusts.
- Fraudulent Transfers And Conversions And Ethical Considerations -- Keith S. Kromash
- General Exemptions From Creditors -- Sam W. Boone, Jr. and Michael S. Singer
- IRA And Qualified Plan Benefits -- Richard Gans
- Asset Protection Provided With Florida Business Entities -- Thomas O. Wells
- Homestead: Creditor Issues -- Barry A. Nelson
- Homestead: Non-Creditor Issues -- Charles Ian Nash
- Creditors? Rights To Assets In Trust -- Jerome L. Wolf
- Section 529 Arrangements -- Charles Ian Nash
- Relationship Dissolution Planning -- Elaine M. Bucher
- Offshore Asset Protection Trusts -- James J. Flick and Jonathan Gopman
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