Can a Trust Protect My Assets in Divorce?

As financial portfolios become more and more complex, financial trusts are becoming increasingly common.  Why?  Because trusts can be shaped to serve a variety of different purposes, and they can be drafted in a variety of different ways. These days, trusts are routinely used as tools for gifting, asset management, tax shelter and protection from creditors. They can be established while those involved are living, or they can be included in a will, to be established after death.

 

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Elegant Breakups

Is there a pleasant way to have a breakup? I guess ‘pleasant breakup’ sounds like an oxymoron but indeed there are cases when one can break up without generating tremendous amount of negative feelings. As is often the case, to simply disappear or not answer requests for even talking about it, is also not the right way to handle a breakup. After all were you not with this person engaging in some of the most intimate things imaginable, and now you do not even want to get face-to-face with that person? (Related: Breakup for the first time)

 

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