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Sep. 10, 2010

McCourt Divorce Shines A Light on Asset Protection

Asset protection has gained prominence during tough economic times. The McCourts used one such method to protect their assets from creditors of the Los Angeles Dodgers franchise, by Jacob Stein of Klueger & Stein.

By Jacob Stein

Asset protection has significantly gained in prominence over the past few years. The declining fortunes of real estate developers and investors facing personal guarantee calls, coupled with business owners teetering on the verge of bankruptcy, resulted in a boom for this industry.

Asset protection deals with structuring asset and business ownership to make it either impossible, or at least very expensive and difficult, for a l...

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