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Teresa speaks with highly-regarded trust designer Ryan Fowler, co-author of the top-rated consumer-focused book on trusts: Asset Protection: ...in Financially Unsafe Times If you are a high-net-worth individual, business owner, or self-employed professional, you are especially vulnerable to frivilous lawsuits, creditor actions, and other actions designed to empty your cash and destroy your financial future. In this informative interview, Teresa discusses the NEED FOR ASSET PROTECTION, especially in this insane, post-COVID world. "A good asset protection planner knows how to make it more difficult for a creditor to prove assets were transferred in a fraudulent manner. If they can’t prove the debtor’s intent was to thwart a creditor, then they can’t use fraudulent transfer law to reach an asset that’s no longer owned by the debtor. That means a creditor, if he wishes to undo an asset protection plan, will have to use circumstantial evidence to convince a judge that the debtor did a transfer with fraudulent intent. Doing so takes time and effort. And, it’s going to cost the creditor a fair amount in legal fees."- Ryan Fowler If you have a solid asset protection plan in place, and you have or expect to have a deficiency judgment against you, then you have transformed yourself from ‘low hanging fruit’ to a hard target. Your creditors will not be able to just grab your assets. They must first prove your plan is a fraudulent transfer. They will have to put 10 ‘easy’ cases on hold in order to commit sufficient resources to undoing your plan. And, especially if the plan is good, they may be uncertain as to whether they can undo your plan even if they try.