Garrett Sutton

  • Garrett Sutton is a corporate attorney, asset protection expert and best selling author who has sold more than 900,000 books to guide entrepreneurs and investors. For more than 30 years, Garrett Sutton has run his practice assisting entrepreneurs and real estate investors in protecting their assets and maximizing their financial goals through sound management and asset protection strategies. The companies he founded, Corporate Direct and Sutton Law Center, have helped more than 10,000 clients protect their assets and incorporate their businesses.

Are Series LLCs a Good Choice?

Are Series LLCs a Good Choice?

In 1996, Delaware introduced the series LLC. As one of the newer entity choices, series LLCs are an interesting creation. The idea was derived from Delaware’s statutory trust law, which was popular with mutual funds. Under this law, an investment company could form a trust with separate series, each with ...
Corporate Opportunities

Corporate Opportunities

If you invest in or syndicate real estate, what are your duties to your investors? You owe them a duty of loyalty. But how far does that go? The issue of corporate opportunities is important. I wrote a whole chapter on it (from which part of this is excerpted) in ...
Design Your Asset Protection Plan With Diligence

Design Your Asset Protection Plan With Diligence

You design a lot of things in your life—the layout of your house, the flow of your business, the requirements for your children. These and many more scenarios are all elements of conscious design. Asset protection is no different. There is an architecture—a cohesive structure—to your properly planned legal safeguards ...
Titan Talk Featuring Garrett Sutton

Titan Talk Featuring Garrett Sutton

| Podcast | Profiles
As a titan of asset protection, Garrett Sutton is not only an attorney, but a best-selling author and business owner. Sutton is who the top investors call when they need to protect themselves and their investments. Sutton helps clients recognize why protecting their LLC is essential, file documents appropriately, and ...
Checkbook IRA, or Checkbook LLC?

Checkbook IRA, or Checkbook LLC?

| Article | Investment Strategy, IRAs
A recent case has shed light on one of the riskiest retirement plan strategies offered by promoters. In McNulty v. Commissioner (157 T.C. 10), a U.S. Tax Court provided clarity to the scheme of using self-directed IRAs for personal investments. Although the rules are strict, they had become lax and ...
Think Realty Podcast #152 – Get Your House in Order

Think Realty Podcast #152 – Get Your House in Order

There is a thirst for financial education, and this guest has traveled the world fulfilling that thirst. Author and Rich Dad Poor Dad advisor Garrett Sutton is on this episode and you won’t want to miss it! Garrett and Abhi talk asset protection, insurance, LLCs and more. This is important ...