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Judges and juries are granting absolutely absurd awards for equally absurd injuries.

Everyone who has a significant net worth or substantial liability insurance is a target for the lawyers and the entrepreneurial plaintiffs who are hoping to "hit the jackpot" by getting a big judgment against them. Winning a lawsuit is the equivalent of wining the lottery for many lawyers and their clients.

Due to the nearly total lack of financial privacy in the U.S., your net worth and income can be obtained by any lawyer for less than $50. Some former ambulance chasers have gotten smart and they are now using computer search services to locate business owners and professionals with a high net worth or substantial liability insurance. When they find one, they then contact their patients, clients or customers to see if any of them are disgruntled for any reason.

Do you have any former patients, clients or customers who might be angry enough to sue you if an enterprising lawyer looks them up and offers them a no-risk opportunity for some easy money?

Can you be absolutely sure you won't ever have any patients, clients, customers, employees, partners, relatives, former spouses, angry children or anyone else who might have a motive to sue you for something?

Do you own any real estate?

Are you an officer or director of any charitable or business organization?

Do you have children who are of driving age?

Do you have any employees?

Do you have any partners?

Is there any chance that customers or clients who depend on your products or services will be suing you because of computer breakdowns due to the Year-2000 date problem? Even if your business computers are year-2000 compliant, will all of your critical suppliers be able to deliver critical goods or services to you after 12/31/99? The legal profession is gearing up to cash in on an expected avalanche of litigation arising from problems caused by malfunctioning computers after the century changes. Many commentators have indicated that those lawsuits are not going to be limited to the big corporations. In fact, the first lawsuit over year-2000 problems was filed by a small grocery store in Michigan. Their cash registers would freeze up every time a customer gave them a credit card with an expiration date after 1999. They sued their software vendor.

If you have assets, you will eventually be a target for a lawsuit.

And - if you wait until then to try to protect some of your assets, it will be too late. Asset protection is like fire insurance or life insurance. When you really need it, you can't get it.

It's an organized process of using legal procedures to balance the scales of justice by making some of your assets difficult for a judgment creditor to attach and to sell. Asset protection involves the use of legal devices such as corporations, limited partnerships, limited liability companies, charitable trusts, ERISA qualified pension plans, state homestead exemptions, creditor exemptions for life insurance and annuities, real property held in joint tenancy by a married couple (which is very different from normal joint ownership) and irrevocable trusts.

The ultimate form of asset protection is a special type of trust in a foreign country that has laws designed to make it very difficult for U.S.  judgment creditors to get an attachment.

These solutions aren't simple and the most effective solutions can be very expensive. There are only a very few lawyers who specialize in helping those with assets to insulate their assets from the lawsuit epidemic in the U.S. and they can be very expensive.

There are also a host of con men, charlatans and ill informed simpletons who are peddling the legal equivalent of "snake oil". There are dozens (if not hundreds) of devious or ill-informed hustlers on the internet who want you to believe they can help you to protect your assets for a few dollars by putting your money into an international business company (IBC) or a foreign trust. There are a lot scams out there about asset protection.

How can you become an informed consumer of asset protection services - at a small cost?

It's simple. You can subscribe to The Jacobs Report on Asset Protection Strategies for a mere $50 a year - for the email service. The regular U.S. mail service is $145/year, but we are trying to develop a strong internet publishing presence and are temporarily offering a generous discount of more than 72% off the regular price for the email version of our newsletter. (We fully expect this email rate to increase in the next few years.)

If there are a lot of crooks, charlatans and con men who are hustling bad asset protection advice, how can you be confident that our newsletter is reliable and well informed?

We aren't selling legal services, foreign trusts, foreign corporations or other packaged services or kits to do-it-yourself. We only sell objective research to help our subscribers make better informed decisions. As one of our subscribers put it,

We have cultivated an editorial advisory board of some of the top experts in the field. We have been publishing the Asset Protection Strategies for more than four years and have been in business as a publisher of tax and financial information for more than 25 years.

A second clue is that we are willing to give you a 100% money back guarantee that our newsletter will deliver what we have promised. It will provide you with qualified, objective analysis of the advantages and the disadvantages of various asset protection methods.

The better qualified asset protection experts charge from $200 to $300 an hour. Some of these experts spend hours on the phone with us every month to explain the newest concepts in asset protection or to help us unravel some complex asset protection method. Through us, you get the benefit of their advice for as little as $3.33 a month. Through our newsletter, our experts will help you to know if your lawyer really knows what he or she is talking about.

This web site includes two years of back issues of our newsletter, plus back issues of our two other email newsletters on legal methods of tax avoidance and on offshore topics. Our web site also includes numerous articles that we have written about the best internet resources for information about asset protection, taxes, offshore topics and the year-2000. The subscriber private web site also includes topical commentary about various asset protection, tax and offshore subjects from our asset protection forum.

We also sponsor a FREE asset protection and offshore discussion forum which is open to the public. You don't have to subscribe to any of our newsletters to participate.

Most likely, you have already seen our extensive public web site about asset protection. This web site provides more than two dozen articles about different aspects of asset protection. It's equivalent to a large book on the subject - and it's free.

So why should you subscribe to our newsletter if all that information is free on our web site? Why? Because the "good stuff" is in our subscriber web site and the "news" is only available through our newsletter.

The information on our public web site is somewhat like taking an introductory college course on asset protection. You could call it "Asset Protection 101".

But the introductory information doesn't get into the critical details. The really critical details are in our private subscriber's web site. The  more advanced analysis and pitfallsof different asset protection devices is not on the public web site - it's on the subscriber web site and in the monthly newsletter.

In addition, the subject is constantly changing. Our newsletter keeps you up to date on significant new developments in the asset protection field. Recent issues of our newsletter are only available on our private subscriber's web site. The subscriber web site is also FREE - but - only for paid subscribers. (There's no extra charge to use the subscriber web site.)

So - you can participate in our FREE public forum on asset protection and offshore topics, with our compliments. You can also get the equivalent of a large introductory text book on asset protection through our FREE public web site. When you have decided that you are ready for more details about various methods of asset protection, then it's time to subscribe to our newsletter and to obtain access to our subscriber web site.

For just $4.17 a month (paid annually), you also get 12 monthly email reports about significant new developments in the subject of asset protection. And you gain free access to our private subscriber web site where the more advanced and more technical aspects of asset protection are stored - along with two years of back issues of the newsletter.

You also get our promise of a full refund of your subscription price anytime in the first year of your subscription - for any reason at all. If you aren't happy, we don't want to make you angry by arguing with you - and we don't want any unhappy subscribers.

Even though the price of our email newsletter is extremely modest, the newsletter isn't for everyone. In fact, our subscribers represent the top 5% or 10% of the population in terms of income and net worth. The brutal truth of it is that if you are worried about $50, you aren't ready to be a subscriber.

But if you are ready to take a chance on our newsletter and research service,  you can send us a check by regular mail - using the subscription  order form.

Remember the earlier comment about getting asset protection before you need it? Please don't put it off if you know that you are at risk because of your work or your net worth.

You must have your plan in place before you get sued - or even before there is any threat of a lawsuit.

Vernon K. Jacobs
Editor & Publisher
Global Asset Protection 

P.S.  I forgot to mention that we have a lot of very happy subscribers for the printed version of our newsletter. Many of them responded to a survey asking how they felt about the newsletter. If you still have any doubts about whether to subscribe now, please take a moment to check out their comments.
 
 

Further details about protecting your assets from future lawsuits  are available in our subscriber's web site. Changes in the tax laws and various federal and state laws affecting various asset protection devices are provided in our monthly newsletter on Asset Protection Strategies. 

NOTICE: This Information is intended only for educational purposes and may be regarded as controversial by some legal experts. Readers should consult with a qualified  professional who is familiar with their specific financial and tax circumstances before adopting any ideas that are discussed in this article.

About the author:

Vernon Jacobs is a CPA/CLU who works as a tax author and consultant.  He  sponsors and moderates a free discussion group on asset protection and offshore topics.  His email address is vkj@rpifs.com.  He can be reached by phone or fax at (913) 362-9667.

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