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Asset Protection Planning

At its core, all estate planning has some element of asset protection.

Our Asset Protection Planning attorneys meet with our clients to review their assets and discuss their preferences on how to have the assets preserved or distributed after their death. We help them ensure that their assets pass to (or are used for the benefit of their) intended beneficiaries and not unintended “beneficiaries” such as the Internal Revenue Service or creditors. Often, the appropriate use of a trust, a limited partnership, or a limited liability company, can mean the difference between having assets available to provide for the lifetime of a child versus making assets available to the child’s creditors. We work with our clients to help them balance between outright ownership and protective structures to enhance their asset protection planning.

If you have any questions four our Asset Protection Planning Attorneys, contact us here.


Please note that the above text does not constitute legal advice nor does it create an attorney-client relationship.  Should you be in need of legal services regarding a particular matter, please reach out directly to one of our attorneys. Click here for our full website disclaimer.

Representative Experience

  • Advised client to separate different components of an operating business so that the one division operating with a high exposure to lawsuits and potential creditors was separated from the part of the business that owned valuable real estate and equipment.
  • Established multi-generational trust to safeguard family business interests from potential creditors, and successfully defeated transmutation claim of child’s divorcing spouse via forensic accounting.
  • Negotiated premarital agreements for children of controlling owner of family business to ensure validity in both North Carolina and state or country of residence for each child to ensure business interests were protected in the event of the child’s divorce.

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  • S. Kyle Agee
    S. Kyle Agee

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    David T. Lewis

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    Lauren S. Martin

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    Holly B. Norvell

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    Stacy M. Reid Monroe

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    J. Darrell Shealy

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  • N. Lucille “Lucy” Siler
    N. Lucille “Lucy” Siler

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