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We have Beneficiary Deeds and TODs on our Missouri stuff, and in FL there is the Lady Bird Deed, also known as Enhanced Life Estate Deed. One of the best reasons to use a Florida lady bird deed is that it can help our clients to become eligible for Medicaid, which is a government assistance...

Do you need my address, to send some of your stuff? I understand that protecting assets from creditors and frivolous lawsuits, and setting things up to have them flow to our heirs, avoiding probate is two separate issues, and I would want to do both.

Hi AJ . . . It's been awhile. We got that property line thingie settled. Our neighbor accepted what we offered for free seven years earlier, only he paid a little bit for it. BTW, I'm not going . . . so I wanna hang onto everything. ;)

well, darn :(

Speaking of LLCs, is that a way of putting assets out of the reach of personal creditors, or judements? Of course, putting them is harm's way for creditors or judgments for the LLC. If it is a method to do that, my wife and I would still be in control of assets in the LLC.

Build A Wall Around Your Assets I've been reading stuff like this for years, but never have figured out how to get it done. How about that "Family Limited Partnership"? And this...

Well, duh! :) Which is why I'm here, and why we have insurance, and why we have a personal liability umbrella, to prepare for what we don't know what we're preparing for. Anyone else?

I assume the answer is the same if you transfer your assets to an LLC that you and your spouse are the only members of. I wish I could remember the name of the Michigan trust "expert". he was old school . . . did everything by mail . . . I think he probably typed everything on a Smith Corona...

Pretty much the same I've read/seen/heard elsewhere . . . yet people still seem to think they are beating the nursing home issue by transferring assets to trusts. I never have been and am not now concerned about existing creditors. Years ago when I first talked to our insurance agent at the...

OK, then I'll say more. From my years of "studying" I have deduced that you cannot protect your assets from litigation, debt collectors and nursing homes using a Revocable (Living) Trust. You have to do that through an Irrevocable Trust, where you actually give up your assets. In my search I...

For 20 years or so I have been trying to find definitive information about how to 1.) protect personal assets from litigation, debt collectors and nursing homes, and 2.) avoid probate. Is this a good place to discuss that?

Have you forgotten our private conversation about this?

Thanks. As you probably know, I have read that many, many, many times, and it is exactly that that allowed us to defeat an adverse possession attempt by an encroaching neighbor. My question is whether the "encroacher" can acquire title to the part of our property his house encroaches on...

1. Other than adverse possession, is there any way someone can acquire title to property just because their house has been on it for a long time? 2. Can someone be adversely possessing when they don't know they are, say because they own a house that encroaches on someone else's property when...

I'm surprised you suggested that. Since this is a legal forum, I'm surprised you didn't advise exactly the opposite, to not mess with anything that does not belong to me.

Somehow I thought someone had said that they would not feel comfortable, that they did not feel they would have marketable title, if their deed did not give them clear ownership of some area around their house. I can understand that, and I understand setbacks for new construction, but is there...

In our "other" area, in 2004 I got our private road turned over to County. 30 property owners there, too. Had to raise $60,000 to upgrade the roadbed. Not everyone was onboard, but the important one, our Commissioner was. Ours was the last road they "adopted". Was it worth 17 months of my...

Because, when there is a system in place to handle precisely these things (MSBU and MSTD), that seems the logical way to do it. Doing nothing works, too, for now. That saves us $7000 that we would pay a local contractor to build a dock. and "park" our boat elsewhere

Here's the frustration of the 30 property owners I am trying to get something done for, something I have done for a group of property owners before: We are not asking for something for nothing; we are not asking the County to come in and take care of our canal. There is a system in the County...

I tried to get it cleaned up for 4 years. I have not (quit) for 1 year. I just looked at all of the Plat last month, out of curiosity. I am not a bulldog . . . but I am a yappy little SOB that won't let of your pant leg. You live on a canal? Manage a canal? Dredge a canal? Just curious.