07 June, 2020

Quora Answer: Can You Own Assets under Another Name?

The following is my answer to a Quora question: “Can you own assets under another name?

People do that all the time, except that the name belongs to an entity such as a company or a trust.  You cannot own assets under the name of another natural person.  That would be construed as fraud.  The reason why assets are put under and entity is primarily tax mitigation.  People also do that to secure their assets from their personal legal liabilities such as asset claims in a divorce, bankruptcy proceedings, and other forms of asset seizure.



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