Tag: Delaware

  • New and Powerful Estate Planning Tool: the Hawai‘i Asset Protection Trust (APT)

    Two years ago, Hawai‘i joined Delaware, Nevada and 11 other states in validating self-settled spendthrift trusts. What this means is that you can now create a trust for yourself that will protect your assets from your own creditors. This is a huge departure from prior law, which expressly prohibited such trusts. For convenience, we will…