Maryland Living Trust: Is it Right for You?
How to Set Up a Living Trust in Maryland [2024 Edition] Are you thinking about how best to pass your assets onto your family, friends, or chosen charity? If so,…
How to Set Up a Living Trust in Maryland [2024 Edition] Are you thinking about how best to pass your assets onto your family, friends, or chosen charity? If so,…
If you’re looking for a second passport, St Kitts and Nevis Citizenship by Investment Program is well worth a look. It's a long running program that consistently wins awards in the…
How to Create a Living Trust in Georgia in 2024 Are you thinking about how best to pass your assets onto your family, friends, or chosen charity when the times…
Have you heard about an Illinois Land Trust and wondering if you need one? If done properly, it offers privacy and the ability to pass real estate to your heirs…
If you’re looking for a second passport, Dominica's Citizenship by Investment Program could be a good option. It’s one of the quicker programs and the lowest costs as well — starting…
Have you heard about a Florida Land Trust and are wondering if it's right for you? If done properly, it offers privacy and the ability to pass real estate to…
It’s a question we’ve gotten a lot, especially since the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic Bank this past spring. So how do you protect against bank bail…
You may have heard of a Land Trust, but do you really know what it is? About 10 years ago, a client approached us and asked us if we could…
For years, the US Securities & Exchange Commission has tried its best to shut down cryptocurrencies and the companies involved in the digital asset space. By and large, they’ve been…
You likely know how important it is to get a second residency. It lets you live in another country if you find staying here in the United States just isn’t…
Congress tends to bury some of its most repressive legislation in the fine print of bills supposedly intended for other purposes. The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) is just one of…
We’ve long been skeptical when it comes to IRS pronouncements of a “tax gap” – the difference between a taxpayer’s actual income tax liability and what they actually paid. Last…
There’s no sugar-coating it: the United States is by far the world’s lawsuit leader. About 90% of the world’s lawsuits are filed in the good old Red, White, and Blue.…
Economists and governments have long had a very low opinion of the cash you carry in your wallet or stash in a safe place for a rainy day. Economists hate…
Over the years, we’ve repeatedly criticized US credit bureaus, which maintain detailed financial records of nearly every adult American – well over 200 million people. Credit reports are gold mines…
The 2008 invention of bitcoin, the world’s first cryptocurrency, revolutionized not only the concept of money, but how it can be exchanged. Bitcoin is a form of peer-to-peer electronic cash…
Who can forget the soaring voice of Aretha Franklin? Whether singing a gospel standard like “Amazing Grace” or a huge hit like “Respect,” Franklin’s talent and determination helped her build…
Gold has long been a trusted store of value. For proof, we need look no further than a trip to the Egyptian pyramids or many other ancient sacred sites. But…
Last Thursday, the Federal Reserve, America’s central bank, announced that FedNow, its new system for instant payments, was up and running. Financial institutions can use this facility to give their…
Here at Nestmann, we regularly bemoan the erosion of our “right to privacy.” The root of the problem is a legal concept called the “expectation of privacy.” Back in 1967,…
In this age of passport confiscations, stricter border enforcement, and compulsory denaturalization, it’s more important than ever to obtain a second citizenship and passport – "just in case.” Take a…
One of the biggest concerns our clients have is that the government will forcibly convert all their assets into a central bank digital currency (CBDC) over which the government has…
Back in 2020, we wrote an article entitled, “Your Home Is Spying on You, Too.” It was our first foray into the world of the “internet of things” or simply…
We don’t read much about it on this side of the “Pond” – the slang term some Europeans use for the Atlantic Ocean – but the United Kingdom could be…
Complying with US tax rules is hard enough even when you live in the United States. But with rare exceptions, if you’re one of the four million or so US…
In the last two weeks, all hell has broken loose in the financial markets. On March 8, Silvergate Capital, a major lender to the cryptocurrency industry, announced that it would…
It’s been a long time coming. After nearly a decade of vilifying the citizenship by investment (CBI) programs of five Caribbean countries, the US government has made a remarkable admission:…
Greetings from Panama City, Panama. As I write these words, I’m looking down from my hotel window to the bustling Calle Ricardo Arias, in Panama City’s business district. Judging by…
Longtime readers know we have a low opinion of credit bureaus, with Equifax scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of their depraved indifference to computer security. This is,…
On May 11, 2005, President George W. Bush signed into law the “Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief.” Hidden within the $82…