How to Legally Protect Your Assets, 2nd Edition

How To Legally Protect Your Assets, 2nd edition, by David A Tanzer, a former judge and litigation lawyer has created a layman's guide to asset protection and wealth preservation. For the first time, a complete guide to all of the different legal asset protection tools is contained under one cover. Professionals acting in the disciplines of law, accounting and asset management have found it a useful aid in providing stateside and offshore planning advice to their clients. This book is about protecting and preserving your hard-earned money and property, understanding the legal tools available and how to successfully use them every day. A 397 page quality softcover (perfect bound) book and complimentary video helps you identify domestic and offshore choices that are best for you. Learn how to level the playing field in a world of plaintiff hungry sharks out to get a chunk of your assets. Author of Offshore Living & Investing, Planning Strategies for the Sovereign Individual.

Following over thirty years in law and business, David Tanzer concentrates in international planning for clients located across the USA, and around the globe. Tanzer provides guidance to individuals and businesses, assisting them in mitigating personal and business risks, allowing for opportunities for domestic and international asset protection, global investment diversification, pre-migration and expat planning, and financial growth. As a former judge and retired commercial litigation attorney, David has seen wealth exchange hands quickly for those that failed to take proper planning steps in advance of threats. Tanzer places emphasis on advance planning steps before a problem materializes. A key part of successful planning is to take necessary steps before a problem arises. Bringing together domestic and international professionals in the disciplines of law, tax and business is an integral part of the planning process. David was named a Top 100 Trial Lawyer by the American National Trial Lawyers Association (NTLA). According to NTLA, membership is obtained through special invitation and is extended only to those attorneys who exemplify superior qualifications. Invitation-only membership is composed of the top national trial lawyers in America, and it s an honor to be recognized for a lifetime of trial achievements. Ironically, today, David s practice is mostly limited to international planning designed to help mitigate against litigation risks. Amongst other planning objectives, this includes asset protection, global asset diversification, pre-migration planning, and offshore investing, to name but a few. In addition, as a litigation attorney, David won a number of large civil lawsuits and is also a Life Member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, Top Trial Lawyers in America, a national trial lawyers group, which recognizes milestone financial awards. Started in 1993, the forum honors trial lawyers whose skill, experience and excellence in Advocacy' have won them verdicts or settlements of $1 million or more. The forum has approximately 3000 members, selected from more than over 1,000,000 attorneys in the United States. David Tanzer is one of only a small number of lawyers qualified as a Life Member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, Top Trial Lawyers in America. David has tried complex civil cases, developing special expertise in business and transactional law, commercial litigation, asset protection, wealth preservation, and international transactions. After entering private law practice he became a named partner in the law firm of Bjork, Tanzer & Associates, Ltd. in Chicago, Illinois, and then established the law firm David A. Tanzer & Associates, P.C. in both Chicago and Vail, Colorado, USA. David teaches post-graduate intensive international law courses at the esteemed Bond Law School, Queensland, Australia on the laws of international asset protection and international trade transactions. David is a 'Fellow' of the Tim Fischer Centre for Global Trade & Finance founded in 2000 as an interdisciplinary research center and think-tank on global trade and finance. He is also a member of the Offshore Institute, a multidisciplinary international professional organization of individuals engaged in offshore and international planning, and a member of the Wealth Advisory Panel of the Oxford Club, a private, international organization of investors and entrepreneurs. He also served by appointment on the bench in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois as Chairman Judicial Arbitration Panel for five years, one of the world's largest trial dockets. He also holds an Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy. The author of the books How to Legally Protect Your Assets, 2nd edition, and Offshore Living & Investing, 2nd edition, Planning Strategies for the Sovereign Individual, and numerous