Easy Mistakes to Avoid When Passing Assets to Your Child

by Leslie Marenco | Oct 6, 2017 | Articles, Asset Protection, Estate Planning, Trusts

Setting up a trust fund for your children can ensure that the money you are leaving behind for them is taken care for them, in the way that you want. But your efforts in completing this important, yet somber task can be ruined by making one of these common mistakes....

Financial + Legal Planning for Unmarried Couples: Should You Legally Marry or Not?

by Leslie Marenco | Sep 15, 2017 | Articles, Asset Protection, Estate Planning

  While the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision to legalize same-sex marriage in the U.S. making it possible for people of all sexual orientations to marry, many modern couples (of all genders and sexual orientation) still choose against marriage.   If...

Planning to Protect Your Assets

by Leslie Marenco | Aug 18, 2017 | Articles, Asset Protection

Asset protection planning is an important step to take in safeguarding your hard-earned assets from being lost, inadvertently, because you overlooked something important.   The most foundational level of asset protection is to plan for what will happen to your assets...

Why Do You Still Operate Your Business Under a Limited Partnership?!

by Leslie Marenco | Jan 30, 2017 | Articles, Asset Protection, Business Succession, Business/ Corporate Law

A long time ago (1999) the Florida legislature passed CS/HB 361 amending Florida Statutes 620.8101 to provide, among other things, for limited liability partnerships (LLP) and limited liability limited partnerships (LLLP). The LLP is a general partnership where none...

Big Bang Blonde: Will a Prenuptial Agreement Protect Kaley Cuoco From Ryan Sweeting?

by Leslie Marenco | Dec 15, 2015 | Articles, Asset Protection, Celebrity Estates, Uncategorized

The news broke that the divorce proceeding between the blonde Big Bang Theory actress Kaley Cuoco and professional tennis player Ryan Sweeting just became a great deal more complicated than originally anticipated – and that shouldn’t be surprising! Cuoco...

Mark Zuckerberg Did NOT Pledge 99% of His Facebook Stock to Charity–Here’s What He Did Instead & What He Could Do Even Better

by Leslie Marenco | Dec 11, 2015 | Articles, Asset Protection, Celebrity Estates

When I heard that Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, were donating 99 percent of their Facebook shares — currently worth more than $45 billion — to charity, I immediately assumed they had been the beneficiaries of smart family wealth planning advice and...