Asset Protection by The Only U.S. Attorney To Have Lived & Worked In The Cook Islands
Asset Protection by The Only U.S. Attorney To Have Lived & Worked In The Cook Islands
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Protection: Protection refers to keeping something or someone safe. Through protection, we shelter and defend things.
Think about it - Is there anything worth protecting more than your family, everyone you love, and everything you have worked so hard to achieve?
Is there anything worth protecting more than your very legacy?
Craig S. Redler helps high-net-worth individuals, business owners, and families protect everything they've built — from litigation, creditors, and uncertainty — using the strongest legal structures available, including Cook Islands trusts. Be protected with the right Estate and Asset Protection plan! Whether we are preparing a comprehensive estate plan or developing a customized strategy to manage and mitigate potential litigation risks our services help to assure that your financial life unfolds as planned.
A credential no other U.S. attorney holds
"Most attorneys who draft Cook Islands trusts have read about them.
Craig Redler administered them."
While holding positions at Amicorp and Southpac Trust International — with offices in the Cook Islands, Auckland, and Miami — Craig served as trustee for offshore trusts settled by high-net-worth clients, structured banking arrangements across Europe and Asia, and operated inside the Cook Islands legal framework directly. He has seen every challenge a creditor can put up. He has seen how the Courts all over the world view them, and handle them.
That experience translates to structures that are designed to actually work when challenged — not just look correct on paper.
Offshore planning done correctly carries no greater legal risk than domestic planning. With proper IRS compliance — which we build into every engagement — a Cook Islands trust is a legitimate, fully disclosed structure with superior creditor protection.
Firsthand Cook Islands experience
The only U.S. attorney to have served as trustee inside the Cook Islands fiduciary industry — I don't just draft documents. I didn't learn what I know just from books. I have lived it.
Compliance-first approach
Offshore structures are only as strong as their compliance. Every engagement includes full IRS reporting integration from day one.
30+ years. One attorney
No associates assigned to your matter. No hand-offs. Craig handles every engagement personally.
"The more money you make, the more times people sue you. People are always going to…eventually go to sue you for something."
--Rick Harrison of "Pawn Stars"
Creditor protection is an important aspect of financial planning that can help protect your assets from potential lawsuits, claims, and other unforeseen events. With litigation costs and frivolous lawsuits at epidemic levels, a ruinous lawsuit can interfere with your lifestyle, and make it impossible to retire when you plan.
If you are sued, your assets could be at risk of being seized or sold to satisfy a judgment. It is prudent and vital to take steps to safeguard your assets from legal claims.
To gain better insight and understanding of the state of litigation in the US, consider these statistics:
Creditor Protection can help you to plan for the unexpected: Life is unpredictable, and unexpected events can occur that may leave you vulnerable to creditor claims.
By taking steps in advance, you can help safeguard your assets and protect your financial future.
Planning in advance helps to assure that you choose the people to manage your affairs at times of incapacity or after death and that you decide who will get what, and that the processes of "when and how" are fast, private, and with minimum headache and expense.
Asset Protection helps to assure you have an estate to Pass on, by reducing the chance that you lose the property that it took you a lifetime to earn in a ruinous, predatory lawsuit.

If you are looking for personalized service (never "one-size-fits-all"), the best techniques, and the best attorney to protect you, your wealth, and your family you've come to the right place. Attorney Craig Redler has over twenty years of estate planning experience. Prior to estate planning, he was a radio host, a Legislative Assistant for the Majority Leader of the US House of Representatives and a successful litigator. Craig is the ONLY ATTORNEY IN THE USA TO HAVE LIVED IN THE COOK ISLANDS TO WORK IN THE FIDUCIARY INDUSTRY THERE.
Why is that important? Because the Cook Islands has some of the strongest asset protection laws in the world. The Country's innovative, best-in-class laws provide for strict privacy and confidentiality, and protections for trust assets, making it difficult for creditors to locate and seize them.
The Cook Islands pioneered most of the concepts common in asset protection planning today, having passed the first such statute. The Cook Islands remains a stable and secure country with a strong political and economic environment. This stability provides assurance to those who establish entities there.
Craig specializes in helping individuals and businesses protect assets from potential legal claims and financial risks. He works with a range of clients, including moderate and high-net-worth individuals, business owners, manufacturers, those with multiple employees, athletes, entertainers, and professionals in high-risk industries such as doctors and lawyers, and CPAs. He also works closely with other financial services professionals, such as financial advisors, CPAs, and insurance professionals to make sure every client has a comprehensive estate, tax, and financial plan.
Asset protection planning is not necessary for everybody. Even for those where asset protection provides a benefit, Cook Islands and other offshore entities are not the only tools used by our firm, but for certain classes of assets they can be the best, and there is not one other attorney in the USA that has the experience of Craig.
Contact us for a free phone consultation. Let us help you figure out what your best next steps are. The sooner you have a plan of action, the better your chances of taking the correct steps to get the results you want.
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