If you have money, you are a target for a financial predator.  Many of these predators are lawyers who make a generous living by finding excuses to sue people like you. 

In one case, a lawyer hired a detective to track down the past patients of a surgeon and then contacted those patients to ask if they were really, really, really happy with the outcome of their surgery. 

They may find you because of where you live, the car you drive, your occupation or from an asset search with a computer.

If you look in the back of any legal publication, you will see dozens of ads offering to locate the assets of people the lawyer might sue.

Some of the predators are the police, sheriffs and federal officers who are entrusted with protecting us from harm, but who can't resist using the forfeiture laws to their own advantage. 

In one case, a family lost their farm because a person they didn't even know was growing marijuana in a back corner of their farm. In another case a $16,000 car was confiscated because of a driving violation.

When you do attempt to create legal barriers to protect your assets, you may encounter other legal predators who convince you to set up a costly arrangement that will only get you into trouble with the authorities.

Most people assume that if they have liability insurance, they don't need anything else. While it is important to have insurance, there are great gaps in coverages and many insurance companies are aggressive about looking for excuses to deny converage after a claim is filed.  For some professionals, the cost of  liability insurance is prohibitive because of the kind of work they do and not because of any bad claims experience.

Then there are the numerous lawyers who are jumping into the asset protection specialty with limited training and without having anyone to teach them the ropes.  You should be very wary of any lawyer who has not devoted more than half of their time to this specialty for at least five years.

Even worse, there are a growing number of insurance agents, financial planners, investment advisors and even accountants who want to help you to create an asset protection structure and who basically offer to provide legal services for which they are not qualified or insured.  The biggest problem with many of these well meaning advisors is that they don't even know what they don't know about the complexities of the legal process of asset protection.

Then there are the promoters who believe that one size fits all and that a low cost package of legal boilerplate will make them a lot of money even if the package is ill suited to you and your family. (Some of these promoters even have impressive legal credentials but they have decided it's more profitable to sell everyone the same package whether they need it or not. )

But the worst of the sharks in this infested ocean are those who put together some kind of foreign trust or offshore limited liability company -- with the false promise of huge tax savings.  Thousands of U.S. taxpayers have put money into a foreign trust or foreign corporation based on false advice and are now paying huge fines to the IRS for the unreported income in their foreign entity.

There is a ton of non-sense and outright fraud  on the Internet regarding asset protection and related tax issues.

There is no safety in doing nothing and there is a risk that you could get caught in the web of some predatory promoter of offshore structures or even of domestic limited partnerships that are of questionable value because of how poorly they are structured.

What can you do?

You can spend a small amount of time and a very small amount of money to educate yourself about the variety of legal ways to protect your assets and about the many kinds of scams and schemes that you need to avoid getting into.

The more you know about the subject, the less likely you are to become the victim of a false prophet who claims to have the magic potion to protect your assets from every harm.

I have gathered together a team of some of the top legal professionals in the U.S. to help me explain the complex subject of asset protection in plain English for those who do not have a law degree or years of working in related fields. Even if you do have a law degree, if you are not a specialist in this complex and controversial subject, you will find that we offer the most extensive and economical  education available on the subject.

From 1993 through the end of 2000, Offshore Press, Inc. (previously Research Press, Inc.) published a series of in-depth monthly research reports on the subject of asset protection and complex tax saving arrangements. We explored and questioned every known  legal arrangement from joint ownership to the controversial offshore trust and  the charitable trust.

For three years, we also published the only newsletter on offshore tax law for the general public to help dispel many of the myths and nonsense being promoted on the Internet.

Then we completed a 150 page guide to asset protection and risk management for amateur (non professional) investors.

Twice a month, we issue an email newsletter that includes significant news about asset protection and the complex tax planning arrangements described in our reports and books.

Nearly ten years of research reports on asset protection methods, ALL of our ebooks, the twice monthly newsletter on International Wealth Protection and related tax subjects, plus dozens of additional in-depth reports and hundreds of articles are available for $180 per year if you use our automated online order system.

If you are not ecstatic with the value and ease of use of this educational resource, we will give you a 100% refund of your entire subscription fee at any time during the first full year of your subscription.

All of our material is written for the layman.

All of our material examines "the good, the bad and the ugly" aspects of various asset protection and tax arrangements. We avoid all arrangements where we could get some kind of financial incentive for promoting some sort of product or service other than our own research reports, seminrs, newsletter and books.

To protect yourself from the numerous crooks and even from well meaning but unqualified local advisors, you must educate yourself about the basics and about the kinds of scams and schemes you need to avoid.

You can get that kind of help by subscribing to the Offshore Press on-line library of wealth protection and related tax research reports. Unlike most technical articles on similar topics, these reports explore the advantages and the risks of using various devices like a family limited partnership, a limited liability company, the homestead exemption, a foreign bank account or a foreign trust -- and many, many more.

These reports are available on a restricted web site for paid subscribers. You can get instant access to the web site at any time of day or night with our Yahoo secure automated order system.


If you (or a client) is seriously interested in "going offshore" for asset protection, a business opportunity or for access to investments not available in the U.S., we offer the most extensive on-line source of reliable guidance about asset protection and legal tax avoidance. 

Access to this wealth of information is available immediately when you subscribe using our automated order system.

By the way. It wasn't raining when Noah built his ark and you can't buy fire insurance when your house is on fire. Your asset protection structure must be put in place before there is any event that could give rise to a lawsuit.

If you put off getting started, there is a good chance that you could be sued before you have had an opportunity to protect some of your assets from the financial predators.

So don't put this off. Get started now.

If the information on our subscribers' web site is not what you want or need, you can get a full refund within the first 12 months, with no hassle or argument.

My name is Vernon Jacobs and I rarely have anyone who asks for their money back -- but when they do, I respond immediately with a full refund.

I've been an author and publisher of tax, legal and even computer related material for over thirty years.  I'm also a CPA and a former insurance executive -- which is part of the reason why I have the technical background to tell when some lawyer is trying to give me a snow job.

I'm also very fortunate to have been able to recruit some of the very best and brightest in the field to help me to deal with honest disputes between various experts.

Let me help you to protect your assets from the numerous legal and financial predators in today's world.

Vernon K. Jacobs
President
Offshore Press, Inc.


P.S.  If you don't take steps now to protect your assets, it will be too late when someone tries to confiscate your property.

But if you are up to your eyeballs in alligators and just don't have the time right now, at least sign up for a free subscription to my email newsletter The Jacobs Report. On a time available basis, I respond to questions from subscribers, customers and others. You won't be buried with more email because I only send out about 2 or 3 memos each week.  And during the tax season, I may go for weeks without sending out any memos. But at least it's an easy way for you to stay in touch so you will remember to become a subscriber when you have a little more time to learn about how to protect your assets from financial and legal predators.

Another P.S.  From time to time I sponsor seminars on asset protection or related tax subjects. My paid subscribers will get substantial discounts or will have the first opportunity for limited early bird discounts.