You'll Never See Every Threat Coming. A Wyoming Trust Means You Don't Have To.
The scenarios that destroy wealth are rarely the risks you planned for. A Wyoming Asset Protection Trust is how you protect your life's work against the catastrophes you can't predict. Speak with Mark Pierce, a trust attorney with 40+ years of experience structuring protection for business owners, physicians, and high-net-worth families.
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The Threats You Haven't Thought of Yet
Mark has spent 40 years watching successful people lose what they built to the things they never saw coming:
Your 17-year-old son takes your car for a joyride.
He causes an accident that kills two people and leaves another paralyzed. The liability is enormous. And you're left asking: "Am I going to lose everything I have?"
Your business partner dies.
His younger second wife demands a million-dollar buyout for her "share" of the company, even though the entire business isn't worth that and there's no liquidity to pay her. The surviving partners walk away. She takes over a business she can't run. It fails.
You're a doctor dating someone, and you have a child together.
When the relationship ends, she sues for common-law marriage, even though you never proposed and never held a ceremony. Suddenly your assets are on the table in a proceeding you didn't know was possible.
You and your husband are both surgeons.
A malpractice claim against him exceeds his policy limits and his personal assets. So the plaintiff's attorney starts coming after your marital estate too.
These aren't hypotheticals. These are real situations Mark has seen during four decades of practice. The pattern is always the same: smart, successful people who didn't plan for the unknown.
You can't anticipate every way life goes wrong. A Wyoming Asset Protection Trust is how you stop needing to. It moves your most important assets into a protected structure before any of these scenarios unfold, so that when something does go sideways, your wealth isn't sitting in the open.
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How a Wyoming Asset Protection Trust Works
A Wyoming self-settled asset protection trust moves your most important assets (investments, real estate, business interests, savings) out of your personal name and into a protected legal structure. You still benefit from those assets. You don't "give everything away." But once the trust is properly established, those assets are no longer in your personal estate where any creditor, ex-spouse, or plaintiff's attorney can reach them.
Wyoming is one of the strongest jurisdictions in the country for this kind of planning. Here's why Mark practices here, and why your trust should be domiciled here regardless of where you live:
Shortest Fraudulent Transfer Window
As little as four months after assets enter the trust - compared to up to two years in other states. Wyoming gives you the fastest path to full protection.
Sealed Chancery Court Records
If your trust is ever challenged in court, the details stay private. No public record. No blueprint for the next person who wants to come after you.
Self-Settled Trust Laws
You create the trust. You're also a beneficiary. You maintain access to your wealth while keeping it protected - something many other states don't allow.
No State Income or Estate Tax
Wyoming imposes no state income tax and no state estate tax. More of what you've built stays intact.
No Residency Requirement
You don't have to live in Wyoming. Clients across all 50 states and internationally use Wyoming because the law is simply better here.
See how this applies to your situation.
A one-on-one consultation tailored to your assets and risk profile.
Is a Wyoming Trust Right for You?
Mark works with a specific kind of client: people who've built something worth protecting and are smart enough to do it before trouble arrives. You're likely a fit if you fall into one of these categories:
- You have $1M+ in assets outside your primary residence and retirement accounts. Whether that's in business equity, investment accounts, real estate, or a combination, you've crossed the threshold where you're a visible target and basic structures aren't enough.
- You're a doctor or entrepreneur with $500K+ in net worth (or approaching it fast). You're in a high-risk profession or running a growing business, and your earning trajectory alone makes you a target. The earlier you plan, the stronger the protection.
- You're a business owner approaching a sale or liquidity event. This is one of the best times to plan. Before a transaction closes, you have options. After the money hits your personal account with no structure in place, it's sitting in the open.
- You have a family business and you're starting to worry about what happens when the next generation takes over, when a key partner dies, or when an in-law demands a buyout that could sink the whole operation.
If that sounds like you, Mark can tell you exactly where you stand and what makes sense for your situation.
If that sounds like you, let's talk.
Why Mark Pierce
40 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
Most asset protection attorneys approach trusts from a single perspective: legal theory. Mark has spent 40 years seeing wealth from three critical angles that reveal what actually works when creditors come calling. As a CPA, he learned where assets are vulnerable. As a bankruptcy litigator, he watched structures fail in court. As a tax court advocate, he defended trusts against the IRS. That combination is rare, and it's why the plans he builds hold up under pressure.
As a CPA
He structured finances for wealthy families and identified exactly where assets were vulnerable to legal claims. This tax background means he builds plans that hold up under IRS scrutiny, not just creditor claims.
As a Bankruptcy Litigator
He watched creditors dismantle asset protection structures that looked bulletproof on paper. He learned exactly which trust provisions make creditor claims fail in court, and which ones fall apart under pressure.
As a Tax Court Advocate
He's defended irrevocable trusts against IRS challenges and knows precisely which structures survive government scrutiny. He is registered to practice before the U.S. Tax Court.
All consultations with Mark are protected by attorney-client privilege.
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40 years of tax, bankruptcy, and trust defense experience.
What Happens When You Book
Your consultation with Mark is a confidential, one-on-one conversation where you walk through your specific situation: your assets, your business, your family, your concerns. Mark will tell you where you're exposed, what options make sense, and what doesn't apply to you.
Here's what a typical first conversation covers:
Your real exposure
The threats you haven't thought about yet, from spousal liability to personal guarantees to state law gaps.
Whether a Wyoming trust is the right tool
And if so, what type of trust, how it would be structured, and how it integrates with what you already have.
Cost, timeline, and next steps
No ambiguity, no pressure, no bait-and-switch.
You'll leave the call knowing exactly where you stand and what your options are, whether or not you decide to move forward. Your next step starts here.
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Common Questions
No. Wyoming's trust laws are available to residents of any state, and to international clients. You don't need to move, relocate your business, or change anything about your day-to-day life.
In Wyoming, the trust structure and the underlying business entities are completely private. Ownership information is not available through public records. This is one of Wyoming's biggest advantages over other jurisdictions.
It is possible to hold property privately through a land trust. That said, if you currently own property in your personal name, that ownership history still exists in the title transfer records. Mark can walk you through your options for handling this going forward.
Under federal law, retirement accounts are not transferable. Only you can own your retirement accounts, so they are not moved into the trust. The good news is they already have strong protections at the state level.
Those documents are governed by your home state's laws, so you'd work with a local attorney for those. Our practice focuses specifically on asset protection planning, though Mark can speak to how the two work together during your consultation.
Your LLC protects the business entity. A Wyoming asset protection trust protects your personal assets, the wealth that sits outside your business structure. They work together, not as substitutes for each other. In many cases, the trust actually owns the LLC for an additional layer of protection.
A revocable trust is an estate planning tool. It helps with probate avoidance and succession, but it offers zero protection from creditors or lawsuits. A self-settled asset protection trust is a fundamentally different structure designed specifically for creditor protection.
This is exactly why timing matters. Once a claim is underway, moving assets can trigger fraudulent transfer issues. The best time to set up protection is before anything goes wrong. That said, Mark can still evaluate your situation and advise on what options remain available to you.
The trust structure is $18,500. There is also an ongoing maintenance package for $5,000 per year. Mark will walk you through exactly what's included in both during your consultation.
Offshore trusts (Cook Islands, Nevis, etc.) sound exotic but often backfire. U.S. judges have jailed people for claiming they "can't" repatriate assets from offshore trustees. A Wyoming trust is domestic, understood by U.S. courts, and offers comparable protection without the legal and practical risks of going offshore.
The Best Time to Protect Your Assets Is Before You Need To.
The clients who plan early keep more of what they earn. The ones who wait discover how few options they really have.