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As a subset of estate planning, asset protection is an important part of a family office’s risk management strategy. In this video, Chris Mays and Craig Redler discuss various strategies for asset protection, particularly for individuals and businesses facing potential legal claims and financial risks. They explore different structures such as trusts and the use of international jurisdictions like the Cook Islands to safeguard assets from litigation.

In times of significant change, it is easy to become paralyzed by uncertainty and indecision. However, such changes are inevitably accompanied by new opportunities. In this Wealth Planning Outlook, insights—and action items—are provided on the most vital planning issues amid epochal technological innovation in artificial intelligence (AI); an uncertain, though in many ways familiar, political, and tax landscape; and rapidly evolving attitudes on the greater meaning of wealth and legacy.

Women’s growing economic influence across all generations has been one of the most significant shifts within our economy across recent decades. While this new dynamic represents great progress, many women lack confidence when it comes to investing. To help change this mindset, this issue focuses on sharing stories that lead by experience to build confidence around all aspects of their wealth.

Trusts are valuable tools frequently used to transfer wealth within families, preserve and protect wealth, and reduce taxes. Understanding trusts and the role of the trustee is important for the people establishing trusts and the beneficiaries of those trusts. Building on this foundation, answers are provided to some questions about trusts and trustees that a family’s younger generation of trust beneficiaries frequently ask.

With the accelerated pace of technology advancements in addition to tax policy changes that require tax teams to synthesize immense amounts of data, tax departments must fully embrace technology to be able to deliver valuable insights and tax planning strategies. This Tax Innovation Guide outlines how to modernize and future-proof your tax practice to navigate the increasingly complicated web of tax laws and regulations, increase the tax department’s adaptability, and gain insights to inform and drive business strategy.

Effective tax and wealth planning can be a challenge, especially when there is a possible recession, elevated inflation, rising interest rates, and geopolitical strife. With this guide, you have the planning information and resources to help you make the right moves to plan for your family’s future and manage your wealth. In addition to insights on a myriad of tax issues and policies, this guide also covers topics related to setting up and maintaining a family office, charitable giving, crossing U.S.

Simply because the instrument governing your trust states that it is irrevocable and cannot be amended does not mean it cannot be modified to serve your family’s needs in a better fashion. Delaware law offers an array of options—administrative amendment, decanting, a nonjudicial settlement agreement, consent modification, trust merger, and judicial modification—to facilitate alteration of an existing trust. Learn more about these remedies to determine if one of them will suit your purpose and achieve lasting improvement in your trust’s operation.