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International Estate and Asset Protection Planning
Given the current economic, legal, and sociopolitical environment, GSBT believes that estate planning attorneys have a duty to advise all clients on the necessity of, and the techniques for achieving, asset protection. Thus, the attorneys at GSBT have extensive knowledge of, and practical experience implementing, the various techniques available to preserve individual wealth from threats such as divorce, litigation, future creditors, and investment risk. These techniques include the optimization of state and federal exemptions for assets, such as homestead, retirement plans, annuities and life insurance, marital property planning, the use of inter vivos marital, dynasty, and children's trusts, and tax and entity planning. In addition, GSBT is one of the leading firms in providing advice regarding wealth preservation and risk management through the implementation of foreign trust and related business, investment, and life insurance structures, and assisting clients with the tax planning and compliance aspects of such structures. The firm's four-volume treatise, Asset Protection: Domestic and International Law and Tactics, first published by Thomson/West Group in 1995 and updated quarterly, remains the foremost treatise in the area of asset protection. The attorneys at GSBT maintain strong relationships with fiduciaries, money managers, and attorneys in more than eleven foreign jurisdictions, and ensure the continued integrity of this area of the law by conforming to strict due diligence and "know your client" policies. GSBT attorneys are experienced in assisting U.S. clients with settling offshore trusts, and forming various foreign entities that provide clients with a comfortable balance of control and protection of assets, allowing clients to manage their family's wealth risk and accumulate assets for future generations.

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