I have a lot of assets to protect.
first you have to get sued: RARE
then everything has to go wrong: RARE
then it has to make it actually to trial court: RARE
then that one judge has to leverage an "alter ego" statute: RARE
> Additionally, you need a multi member non spousal LLC to even get the protection in the first place.
This is false.
> I have a lot of assets to protect.
Then protect them? Put them in different LLCs, trusts, foundations. To save money you can use a Series LLC which lets you separate liabilities or business lines into different series, about 20 states offer those, and outside the US the concept is called a "Segregated Portfolio Company". Use states where there isn't information about you in the LLC filing. You should basically have nothing in your name. Even better, you should have a negative AGI and be in debt on paper. If someone actually wins a civil lawsuit against you, you can tell them to get in line.
Beinf grossly irresponsible with your companies' funds is an interesting way of saying "I tried to pay myself without the detailed advice of a skilled accountant and I made an oopsie and now the judge says I need to pay a lawyer ${sum_i_dont_have} to protect a random plantiff from becoming the new owner of my house"
Again, how amazing is your idea and execution and business networking capabilities that you somehow think you are gonna make more than $2.2M in 10 years of work, like you would at Google?
so wrong lol. you seriously have no asset protection because you believe that? better yet, your actual asset protection strategy is having none and a completely misunderstanding the basics?
Literally the top result on google. Why are you insulting me?
That case was from 2001 and decided in 2003 and the world has evolved so much in the last 20 years. The primary validation is the use of these entities. And let's just imagine your two decade old view of the world is correct and also probable, nobody even needs to know you are a single member LLC. When "12 Forest Road LLC" owns your vacation home at that specific address and no further information exists about the LLC to even the state, the person that sues your other company that has outside capital and employees will never name the other LLC in the lawsuit, and if they did it is much more likely that it gets tossed out or at least that other LLC gets removed from the lawsuit.
And your real issue is that you worked too hard for your other assets that you haven't protected. Nobody needs to know your other assets are held by title holding single member LLCs.
> Why are you insulting me?
Can I insult you into actually doing something about it?
Ask yourself, is it more important for you to be right or more important for you to actually make deterrents and even absolute protections?
and let's not forget, you are using all of this as excuses to not even attempt profitable ideas.
The company concept is a shield. Money is allowed to pass through to you, outside capital is not a tax event and everything you spend is deducted against the much smaller salary you paid yourself. You can have negative AGI, actually have a high compensation, and still get $1,200 checks signed by the President.
Risk is allowed to stay with the company, whether it has anything left to pay to the aggrieved investor or not. This knowledge alone acts as a deterrent to many risks.
You're really overthinking this.