Irrevocable Trusts
Wealth moved permanently out of personal reach, for protection, tax planning, or controlled gifting to the next generation.
Irrevocable & Asset Protection Trusts
Asset protection, done right.
An irrevocable trust moves assets out of your name and legal control, putting your wealth beyond the reach of future lawsuits and creditors. Many Ohio business owners, landlords, and licensed professionals seek asset protection to shield their personal wealth from liabilities not covered by insurance and an LLC alone.
Why an Irrevocable Trust?
Put your personal assets out of reach.
A revocable living trust stays in your control: you can change it or take the assets back whenever you want. But because, legally, they're still yours, those assets remain at risk from lawsuits or creditors.
An irrevocable trust removes your control. Once assets are transferred in, you can't take them back, and neither can a creditor. The trust is run by an independent trustee under its own written terms, outside of your direct control.
Ohio also permits a version of this called the Ohio Legacy Trust, a domestic asset protection trust that lets you remain a named beneficiary while keeping the assets shielded, as long as the trust meets Ohio's strict statutory requirements.
The Toolkit
Solutions built around your needs.
Ohio Legacy Trusts (DAPT)
Ohio's domestic asset protection trust: keep a beneficial interest while placing assets behind a statutory shield.
Layered Protection
Trusts coordinated with LLCs and insurance, so no single failure exposes everything you own.
Wills & Trusts
The foundation: a will that directs your wishes and a living trust that keeps your family out of probate court.
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Living Trusts
A revocable living trust that keeps your estate out of probate, private, and under your control while you're alive.
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Powers of Attorney
Name who can act on your behalf (financial and healthcare) if you can't speak for yourself.
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Living Wills & Advance Directives
Your wishes on life-sustaining treatment, in writing, paired with a healthcare power of attorney so your family never has to guess.
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Trust Administration
Helping Ohio families avoid probate, with estate plans structured to keep their affairs out of the courts.
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Advanced Trust Planning
Tailored trusts for minors, special-needs heirs, blended families, and staged distributions over time.
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Dynasty Trusts & DAPTs
Permanent protection for real estate, investments, and business, shielded from taxes, creditors, and probate.
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Straight answers on hard structures.
No. Because you can revoke it, the law treats those assets as yours, and a judgment can reach them. Probate avoidance and asset protection are different jobs requiring different tools.
Before any claim exists. Transfers into a trust you make after a claim exists, or you have reason to expect one, can be challenged in court and unwound. A trust funded before any liability arises is far more likely to hold up if it's ever challenged.
Not necessarily. Structures like the Ohio Legacy Trust can preserve a beneficial interest under strict statutory rules, and distributions to family can be designed into any irrevocable trust. Control is traded carefully, not blindly.
Designed thoughtfully, each can layer protections on top of one another. Insurance covers claims up to your policy limits. An LLC separates business liabilities from your personal assets. An irrevocable trust protects assets further by removing them from your personal ownership entirely.