WHAT IS ASSET PROTECTION?
Laptop Battery Everyone should be afraid of being sued with so many lawsuits being filed now days around the world.
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THE DANGERS OF JOINT & SEVERAL LIABILITY
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Laptop Computer This is a legal concept whereby an individual could be sued as a second or third defendant without having being directly involved with the original injury to the plaintiff.
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Desktop Computer Here are some examples of how you can be sued for Joint and Several Liability:
Notebooks 1. Your business partner commits theft, fraud, or a personal injury in the course of conducting business.
Lenovo 2. Your spouse is accused of theft, fraud, or a personal injury and the plaintiff sues the entire marital community (including you).
Hard Drive 3. You render assistance to someone who was injured by another person and the plaintiff sues you along with the person who actually committed the injury.
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Software 7. The IRS, or Revenue agency sues your partnership, joint venture, or company for tax evasion.
Hard Drives There are many more examples I could provide. The main thing is that you can be sued and become jointly and severally liable for an injury to someone without having been personally negligent. All that is necessary is that you were connected in some way. If you are dragged into a lawsuit and the other defendants are without assets or insurance, you may end up being held liable for the full amount of the judgment!
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WHAT ABOUT INSURANCE?
Canon Many lawyers recommend you purchase at least $1 Million insurance for each of your businesses, homes, land, cars, motorcycles, and boats you own.
Desktop Pc This will cost you $ thousands in premiums every year depending on how large a deductible (which you'll pay to the plaintiff) you are willing to afford.
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$ MILLIONS CAN BE AT STAKE
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Cisco For example:
Keyboard $84.5 million for children drowned and brain damaged in a swimming pool.
Monitor $49 million for a stillborn baby.
Desktop $41 million for a misdiagnosis of abdominal pain.
Infosys $5.87 million for sponsoring a party where a guest later caused an auto accident.
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Wipro $300,000 for slapping a daughter twice on the face.
Lap Top $75,000 for spraying perfume on a person without permission.
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Intel $12.7 million for a mistake in medication administered by a nurse.
As400 $12 million to a doctor for failing to take a blood test for a rare disorder.
Averatec $7 million to a laborer who lost a limb at work on a construction job.
Hardware $160,000 to an employee who was "goosed" by fellow employees.
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$ Thousands to your defense attorney!
Seagate Don't forget the many hours you will spend meeting with your attorney, answering written questions (interrogatories) from the plaintiff's attorney, attending depositions where the plaintiff's attorney will grill you, attending court hearings (motions), and the trial itself.
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Computer Hardware Just because I am using examples from the United States, citizens of Canada, Europe, Russia, Central & South America, and even communist China are being sued for similar injuries.
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HOW CAN YOU PROTECT YOURSELF?
Technology The best solution is to strip yourself of all assets and become what is known as "judgment proof" amongst the personal injury trial lawyers.
Mainframe Most lawyers charge their clients no direct fee for filing a personal injury lawsuit. This is known as a "contingent" fee. It means that the lawyer will collect no fee unless he wins the lawsuit and can collect the court awarded judgment amount.
Samsung Before a lawsuit is filed, a careful lawyer will research the defendant's ability to pay a court judgment. If the defendant is "judgment proof" meaning he has no insurance, no ownership of assets that can be seized to pay off a court judgment; the lawyer will not want to sue that defendant. That's because the lawyer will spend all of his time and money pursuing a lawsuit with no hope of ever getting paid.
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OFFSHORE CORPORATIONS, TRUSTS & PRIVATE INTEREST FOUNDATIONS
Network Owning a corporation set up in your own country may provide a little protection. However, a domestic corporation can be sued as well. In addition, your shares in a corporation are assets in which a judgment creditor can seize.
Digital Cameras OFFSHORE CORPORATION: A better solution is to set up a corporation outside of your country (offshore). An Offshore Corporation can own real estate and vehicles in your country. For even better protection, set up different Offshore Corporations so each owns one of your major assets. For instance, one corporation owns your cars, another owns one piece of real estate, and another owns different real estate. As the old saying goes: "Don't put all of your eggs in one basket."
Desktops Therefore, use Offshore Corporations to purchase your homes, office buildings, apartments, condos, raw land, and vehicles. The corporations then rent them back to you. Now you are no longer the owner of these assets. They are owned by Offshore Corporations. You are merely a tenant.
Cognos Remember this, it is important that you sign a written lease agreement (preferably in front of a Notary Public) for these properties and duly Record them with the correct state or government agency requiring you to do so. For instance, a notarized Lease Agreement properly describing the real property must be filed with the appropriate county, state, or provincial government office.
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Netfinity Also, remember to always pay your rent. If you have a written rental agreement which you violate by refusing to pay rent, it can be declared a sham by the courts. All of the rent you pay will be deposited into your Offshore Corporation's foreign bank account.
Internet As for cash, deposit as much money into the Offshore Corporation's foreign bank account as you can. These cash assets will also be protected from any court judgment against you.
Cheap Computer ONE WEAKNESS: While an Offshore Corporation can legally own and rent your assets back to you, there is still one weakness when it comes to Asset Protection. The corporation's shares may be in your name, or if they are in a form called "Bearer's Shares", they are still in your control. The IRS and most countries' Revenue agencies require you to disclose any ownership in foreign corporations and bank accounts. In addition, a court could order such disclosures in a lawsuit.
Digital Camera You can avoid this weakness by having all of the Offshore Corporation's shares held by either an Offshore Trust or a Private Interest Foundation. Then you can truthfully tell the IRS, Revenue and courts that you do not have ownership in any foreign corporations or bank accounts.
Printer IMPORTANT: Before you set up Offshore Corporations and transfer assets to them, here is one more important fact. You must transfer your assets before you get into legal trouble or become exposed to a lawsuit.
Xseries FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCE: This is a legal term for someone who tries to hide assets from creditors knowing that a lawsuit has or will be filed against him. It is an attempt to illegally hide assets. Such assets will not be protected from a court judgment.
Maxtor If assets are transferred before any act which arises into a lawsuit occurs, those assets will be protected. In other words, create your Offshore Corporations now and transfer ownership of your assets to them before you get into trouble.
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CONCLUSION
Hitachi Asset Protection is necessary in today's lawsuit crazy world.
Rational While the steps we have summarized for you above may seem difficult and complex, they really are not. That's because using experts who know how to set up Offshore Corporations, Trusts and/or Private Interest Foundations will make this easy for you.
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