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Are there laws to protect me from predatory lending?

There are a number of laws that are on the books right now that are designed to prevent predatory lending practices. The problem is, is that, lenders a lot of times don’t follow those laws. They wait until they get caught and then deal with the problems later, because they’re too busy making money off of the predatory loans. And while the gravy train is running, nobody’s going to try to stop it. So, a lot of these lenders were giving loans that were not, that they shouldn’t have been giving. But the problem was that we only found out now, several years later that this, what kind of a problem this really was. My name is Damion Nassiri. I’m a partner in the law firm Howard Nassiri. We’re based in Southern California and we help people save their homes. If you’ve been the victim of a predatory loan, or you’re facing foreclosure, give us a call.

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attorney: Howard | Nassiri, LLP

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Should I consider offshore asset protection?

An individual should consider an offshore asset protection plan when they have a substantial amount of liquid assets that can be placed offshore. And the reason you want to consider going offshore is because it gives you a safe haven that is protected against the jurisdiction of the Unites States courts. There are more favorable laws offshore also, with respect to how a lawsuit is treated and how creditors are treated who try to get to your assets. I’m Jeff Matsen and I’m the founding and managing partner of Wealth Strategies Counsel. We help people preserve, protect and transfer their legacy to the next generation in the most cost saving and efficient manner possible.

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attorney: Wealth Strategies Counsel

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What is a Domestic Asset Protection Plan?

Domestic asset protection plan is one that is centered either locally here in California or on a national basis within the United States and it constitutes, uh, using liability protected entities and domestic asset protection trust. Not all states have these, the same laws pertaining to the entity protection and the asset protection trust and so you need to make sure that when you set up a domestic asset protection plan it's done in the right venue in the right way with the proper structure. I'm Jeff Matsen and I'm the founding and managing partner of Wealth Strategies Council. We help people preserve, protect, and transfer their legacy to the next generation in the most cost saving and efficient manner possible.

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attorney: Wealth Strategies Counsel

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Are car accidents on the rise in New York?

Auto accidents have stayed relatively consistent throughout the years in New York. What's changed is that the severe injuries out of auto accidents has gone down. Because cars have been made safer, and laws like the seatbelt law have made it safer for people to be in the cars. Hello, my name is Mitchell Ashley of Shandell, Blitz, Blitz and Ashley. We've been helping people for over 30 years when they've been hurt through someone else's negligence. If you've been injured, let us help you.

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attorney: Shandell, Blitz, Blitz & Ashley, LLP

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Can my loan be restructured if it was made by a predatory lender?

A loan can be restructured if it was made by a predatory lender, and that is even true if your loan has been sold. Many times the originating lender will sell the loan, and it might get sold two or three times. But the laws that are on the books right now - the Federal Truth in Lending Act, and the California Loan Modification Law all say that no matter where the loan is now, if it qualifies, you can get a new loan, get an affordable payment, and something that can help you stay in the home and avoid foreclosure. My name's Damian Nassiri. I'm a partner in the law firm of Howard Nassiri, we're based in southern California, and we help people save their homes. If you've been the victim of a predatory loan, or you're facing foreclosure, give us a call.

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attorney: Howard | Nassiri, LLP

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Does a high net worth individual need estate planning?

If you’re a high net-worth individual, I can help you because I understand what your needs and concerns are. I know that you’re worried about estate taxes; you’re worried about passing your assets onto the next generation in an efficient and cost saving manner. I understand the strategies that are involved, in fact, I’ve come up with some of the strategies myself that are involved in making sure that the assets pass to the next generation without incurring estate taxes. I can help you because I’m associated myself with professional advisors that also know and understand these problems. I’m Jeff Matsen and I’m the founding and managing partner of Wealth Strategies Counsel. We help people preserve, protect, and transfer their legacy to the next generation in the most cost saving and efficient manner possible.

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attorney: Wealth Strategies Counsel

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Why Wealth Strategies Counsel for my asset protection?

One of the interesting things we have when it comes to experience in asset protection is that I've written a lot of articles and I've taught a lot of seminars on asset protection to other lawyers. When you do that you have to know what you are talking about. I've had experience not only locally, but I have clients all over the United States and even internationally. So, we have a lot of experience in different kinds of structures, and we are in a position where because we have the contacts and the networking- we can make things happen and happen right and happen fast. I'm Jeff Matson and I'm the founding and managing partner of Well Strategies Council. We help people preserve, protect, and transfer their legacy to the next generation in the most cost saving and efficient manner possible.

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attorney: Wealth Strategies Counsel

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Why estate planning for blended families?

Estate planning is very important when you have a blended family because you have children, normally, from a prior marriage. Those children may not agree necessarily with the new spouse and there can be a lot of conflicts. Also, the new spouse may remarry even and the rights of the children from the prior marriage have to be protected and preserved. I'm Jeff Matson and I'm the founding and managing partner of Wealth Strategies Council. we help people preserve, protect, and transfer their legacy to the next generation in the most cost saving and efficient manner possible.

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attorney: Wealth Strategies Counsel

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How can my heirs minimize paying Estate Taxes?

If you have considerable wealths, there are several technics available to reduce or even avoid instate taxes. One of the things you can do is to set up a family limited liability company or family limited partnership and get a minority discount. There are other ways too. There are private annuities, there are grant or retained annuity trusts and there are technics we can set up in your living trust, in and of itself, that will reduce substantially your estate taxes. I'm Jeff Matsen and I'm the foundering and managing partner of Wealth Strategies Council. We help people preserve, protect and transfer their legacy to the next generation in the most cost saving and efficient manner possible.

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attorney: Wealth Strategies Counsel

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What do I need to do to properly fund my Living Trust?

In order to properly fund your living trust, you need to retitle your assets into the name of, of the trust. That involves deeds, with respect to real property. It involves instructing your bank to change the names on the account to your trust. It involves the other financial institutions where you might have your stocks or bonds, having them retitle the account into the name of the trust. And it involves making sure your investments are all changed into the name of the trust. I’m Jeff Matsen and I’m the founding and managing partner of Wealth Strategies Counsel. We help people preserve, protect, and transfer their legacy to the next generation in the most cost saving and efficient manner possible.

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attorney: Wealth Strategies Counsel

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What is Estate Planning in California?

Estate planning is a process whereby you preserve, protect and transfer your assets. It involves many times a living trust, but it's much more than that, there's wills, powers of attorney, medical healthcare directives. There are also other vehicles for preserving your assets and not just disposing of it. I'm Jeff Matsen and I'm the founding and managing partner of Wealth Strategies Counsel. We help people preserve, protect and transfer their legacy to the next generation in the most cost-saving and efficient manner possible.

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attorney: Wealth Strategies Counsel

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What is a Living Trust in California?

A living trust is a written agreement between you as the client, as the maker of the trust and you as the client as the trustee of the trust or manager of the trust. And it's kind of like a will substitute, and I like to think of it as your own little, family company that you manage, and upon your death that family company continues on and avoids the probate process because you appoint a successor to take your place to manage the trust and distribute the assets according to your instructions. I'm Jeff Madson and I'm the founding and managing partner of Well Strategies Counsel. We help people preserve, protect and transfer their legacy to the next generation in the most cost saving and efficient manner possible.

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attorney: Wealth Strategies Counsel

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What's the #1 misconception about probate?

The number one misconception about probate is that people just have a complete lack of understanding of what it is. They get it confused with estate taxes. They think it's the same. They, they usually have a negative attitude towards it, which is probably justified. But they don't understand the process that's involved. They don't realize that forms have to be filed. That a court has to make sure that the is instructions of the testator or the client are carried out. So the number one misconception about a probate is really what is probate. How do I carry it out? And what do I do to get through it? I'm Jeff Matsen and I'm the founding and managing partner of Wealth Strategies Counsel. We help people preserve, protect, and transfer their legacy to the next generation, in the most cost saving and efficient manner possible.

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attorney: Wealth Strategies Counsel

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What are the advantages of going offshore with your assets?

The principle advantages of going offshore with your assets are you would avoid the jurisdiction of the United States courts. You place the assets offshore where the governments are stable and where the financial institutions are stable. You place them offshore and it makes it very difficult, if not impossible, for the United States court system to attach those assets. I’m Jeff Matsen and I’m the founding and managing partner of Wealth Strategies Counsel. We help people preserve, protect, and transfer their legacy to the next generation in the most cost saving and efficient manner possible.

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attorney: Wealth Strategies Counsel

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How do creditors find out about what property I own?

It's easy for creditors in this day of the internet and public disclosure to find out about assests. Moreover if you are involved in a lawsuite creditors can take you deposition under penatly of perjury and force you to disclose what your assests are.So if you haven't planned in providing protection for your assest's the creditors are going to get to them. I'm Jeff Matsen and I'm the founding and managing partner of Wealth Strategies Counsel.We help people preserve, protect and transfer their legacy to the next generation in the most cost saving and efficient manor as possible.

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attorney: Wealth Strategies Counsel

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Should I have a Domestic Asset Protection Plan?

The best structure for a domestic asset protection plan is generally to use liability protected entities in combination with domestic asset protection trust. I like to think of it as a modular plan, where you have the domestic asset protection trust, of which the client is the beneficiary, and the domestic asset protection trust then owns the member, or partner, interest in the liability protected entity. I'm Jeff Matsen and I'm the founding and managing partner of Wealth Strategies Counsel. We help people preserve, protect and transfer their legacy to the next generation in the most cost saving and efficient manner possible.

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attorney: Wealth Strategies Counsel

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What is a Dynasty Trust in California?

A dynasty trust is a trust that you set up now for purposes of transferring your legacy onto the next generations. And what it does is it gives you the ability to structure your estate plan on a generation by generation basis, without the future generations having to pay any estate taxes. It also protects against divorce and creditors among your children and grandchildren. I'm Jeff Matsen and I'm the founding and managing partner of Wealth Strategies Councel. We help people preserve, protect and transfer their legacy to the next generation in the most cost saving and efficient manner possible.

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attorney: Wealth Strategies Counsel

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Why choose Jeff Matsen for estate planning?

Jeff Matsen: You should choose me as your estate planning attorny because of my background and my experience. Not only as a lawyer, but in life. I've raised a family with my wife successfully myself. I know what your concerns are and I understand how to implement a plan that will meet your needs. I teach other lawyers how to do this. In fact many lawyers hire me to do their estate planning. I'm Jeff Matsen and I'm the founding and managing partner of Wealth Strategies Council. We help people preserve, protect and transfer their legacy to the next generation in the most cost saving and efficient manner possible.

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attorney: Wealth Strategies Counsel

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If I have a Will, why would I want a Living Trust?

You should have a living trust because you want to be able to avoid probate and pass your assets to your heirs in the most effective manner possible. Moreover, having a living trust helps you to get organized now. You're the one that knows most about what your assets are and where they're located. In the retitleing process that means that you're able to organize and marshall together your assets so your heirs know what you have and what you own. I'm Jeff Matsen and I'm the founding and managing partner of Wealth Strategies Counsel. We help people preserve, protect and transfer their legacy to the next generation in the most cost-saving and efficient manner possible.

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attorney: Wealth Strategies Counsel

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How do I fight back against predatory lending?

First step you should take if you feel that you have been a victim of the predatory loan in California is that you should contact an attorney, a good attorney who is experienced in truth and lending matters, predatory lending matters will be able to give you free consultation, sit down talk with you and figure out if there is something that we can do. A lot of times there is something that can be done and most borrowers I have talked to did not even know that these laws existed. They had no idea that they could have a legal right to a loan modification under the new California Loan Modification Law. So, first step I would think would be getting a free consultation from an attorney who will be able to advise you of your rights and be able to help you out if you have been the victim. My name is Damie Nassiri. I am a partner in the law firm Howard-Nassiri. We are based in southern California and we help people save their homes. If you have been the victim of a predatory loan or you are facing foreclosure, give us a call.

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attorney: Howard | Nassiri, LLP

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What is superior about your approach to asset protection?

The difference between our firm and other firms when it comes to assest protection planning, is that we think of our services as directly tailored to the client. We know when to go off shore, when to stay domestic. We know when to utilize liability protected entities. We know when you can set up a marital planning program that will protect your assests. We know how to structure and follow through. And moreover, we get it done quickly, efficiently and we carry out and implement the techniques to the last detail. I'm Jeff Matsen, and I'm the founding and managing partner of Wealth Strategies Counsel. We help people perserve, protect and transfer their legacy to the next generation in the most cost saving and efficient manner possible.

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attorney: Wealth Strategies Counsel

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Why do I need to worry about protecting my assets?

You need to worry about protecting and preserving your assets because we live in a predatory climate. There are creditors now who are attempting to sue and get into the deep pocket of people who are business owners, or professionals, or who own real estate assets. We're in a victim oriented society where people think that they need to be compensated for anything bad that might happen. Therefore, in this situation because of the proliferation of lawsuits, the victim oriented society and the notoriety that some of these cases are given, you need to protect your assets. I'm Jeff Matson and I'm the Founding and Managing Partner of Wealth Strategies Council. We help people preserve, protect and transfer their legacy to the next generation in the most cost saving and efficient manner possible.

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attorney: Wealth Strategies Counsel

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Can litigation occur in probate or trust administration?

There are a lot of problems that arise that generate litigation during probate or trust administration. A lot of those problems are because of the drafting errors that were made in the initial estate plan. That's why it's so important that the estate plan be prepared by a competent attorney. Other problems arise because of the fact that there are disagreements amongst the children as to what the parent's intentions are. And even if the intentions are clearly stated, children feel slighted, or heirs from a prior marriage contest and dispute with the second wife. And there is lots of different problems involved with blended families. I'm Jeff Matsen, and I'm the founding and managing partner of Wealth Strategies Counsel. We help people preserve, protect, and transfer their legacy to the next generation in the most cost saving and efficient manner possible.

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attorney: Wealth Strategies Counsel

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Why Wealth Strategies Counsel for probate or trust admin?

Wealth strategies counsel is the right firm to hire for probate and trust administration, because of our experience and because of the process we have at carrying out the deceased instructions. We have gone to court many different times. We’ve filed probates, hundreds of them. We’ve handled hundreds of different estate administrations. We’ve made a difference. We’ve saved clients money. We’ve helped them speed up the process. And we have avoided beneficiary contentions. We are the right firm to hire because we are the right people at the right time, doing the right thing. I’m Jeff Matsen and I’m the founding and managing partner of Wealth Strategies Counsel. We help people preserve, protect and transfer their legacy to the next generation in the most cost saving and efficient manner possible.

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attorney: Wealth Strategies Counsel

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Do banks prefer loan modifications or foreclosures?

As time goes on, banks are becoming more and more willing to do loan modifications. I would say six months or a year ago, the answer was 'no' whenever a borrower came to a, a bank for loan modification. But as the time is going by and the banks are losing more and more money on the non-performing loans and the foreclosure sales that are not uh, occurring, the banks are st-, starting to change their tune. And especially with the bailout, and the new laws that are coming around with, in California, uh, they are becoming, they're starting to wake up and smell the coffee. And realize that they need to make some money of these loans and the way to do that is to, is to get a loan modification and get the borrower on a payment that they can afford. If they need to extend the term, or if they need to lower the interest rate, something is better than nothing at this point. And so that's the way we're really starting to see banks are becoming more open to the idea of loan modificaiton. My name is Damion Nasire. I'm a partner in the law firm Howard & Nasire. We're based in Southern California, and we help people save their homes. If you've been the victim of a predatory loan or you're facing foreclosure, give us a call.

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attorney: Howard | Nassiri, LLP