Here at Reeder and Associates we like to take a global view of your financial affairs. And a part of that is not only helping you to increase your net worth by tax planning and business consultancy services, it is helping you hold onto your wealth once you have earned it, especially in today’s litigious climate.

We do that by firstly making your assets bullet proof. If you own a tightly held family business, if you are self employed, if you are a high net worth individual, a professional — most of us, in fact — you need to take your real estate, bank accounts, mutual funds/stock etc out of reach of a court judgment. Not so you can avoid paying legitimate creditors, I want to emphasize. No, the purpose is to structure your financial affairs in ways that deter predatory litigants to the maximum degree allowable by law well before a “debtor” makes a claim.

So the first purpose of asset protection is to dissuade vexatious litigants by lowering your financial profile. The second goal is to safeguard your assets from a myriad of criminal schemes like identify theft that haunt high net worth individuals.

This is a field that has an abundance of promoters making claims about a variety of schemes. Promoters of these schemes all tell you that theirs is the best.

But this is one field where your individual circumstances will determine the best option. Here at Reeder and Associates I keep up to date with all plans and techniques and will choose the one that’s right for you.