Estate Planning

Florida Asset Protection for Your Business

By David M. Goldman

Besides using multiple entities for asset protection, two common methods include the use of UCC liens or lease backs.

UCC filing is the equivalent of equity stripping. The UCC filing is a lien on your business asset from typically from a finance company. You can form a Florida Limited Liability Company and exercise a note from the company to your other Florida Business Entity. Along with the not a properly recorded UCC security document can be filed with the State of Florida. This will encumber the assets of the entity and protect those assets from an attempt to attach them to a lien. In effect the finance company would be first in line to collect any proceeds from the sale of the assets.

Another method is to create a lease back situation where one company owns the asset and leases the asset to another company. Since the operating company does not own the asset, it is not available to satisfy the debt.

It is important to create these techniques prior to valid claims to avoid a fraudulent transfer. To learn more about these and other asset protection techniques, Contact a Florida Asset Protection Lawyer.

Full post as published by Florida Estate Planning Lawyer Blog on February 02, 2008 (boomark / email).