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Epic Real Estate Investing

Ye Olde "Transfer Assets to Your Spouse" Protection Trick | 403

Epic Real Estate Investing

Matt Theriault

Investing, Business

4.7955 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

It's the oldest trick in the book, and we've all heard it - transfer assets to your spouse to save yourself from the IRS, right?

Today on Tax Hacker Tuesday, Tim Berry puts his myth-busting cap on to share a real court case and the truth behind this famed protection trick.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Tereo Media.

0:04.0

Did you know that up to 50% of your lifetime income will be wiped out by taxes?

0:10.0

What if you could stop this madness?

0:12.0

Isn't it about time you play on a level playing field

0:14.5

with the wealthiest 1%? Now you can. Tim Berry, attorney at law, shares here each and every

0:20.9

week current tactics and strategies that anyone can implement to

0:24.6

hack the tax code. Protect your assets and keep what's rightfully yours. It's time for

0:30.5

Tax Hacker Tuesday.

0:45.2

Today's little discussion is it kind of goes along the lines of that old phrase of I wish I had a dollar for every single time I heard whatever phrase and in particular the phrase we're going to be talking about today is all the people who I've talked to over the years you say, you know, I don't really need to do anything to protect assets

0:50.0

because what I'm going to do is I'm just going to shift everything over to my spouse

0:53.5

and they're not going to do anything that generates liability so I'll be protected.

0:57.0

So let me share with you a quick court case that came down. This was a bankruptcy case and

1:02.0

then also there's a

1:03.5

district court a federal district court case that follow up after the

1:06.6

bankruptcy case and both the cases are out of the middle district of

1:10.0

North Carolina and here's the fact pattern We had this one individual who was fired

1:15.0

by an insurance company and so he does the American thing. He sues the insurance company.

1:20.2

So on March 1st, he got a judgment of about a million dollars.

1:24.7

Now, for some reason, this individual did not keep a bank account.

1:29.2

So he gave the entire million dollars over to his wife. So we have here after the funds

1:35.0

of her deposit account, Victoria, his wife, put some money inside the money market

1:39.4

account. They went out and they were very eco-conscious. They bought a

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