Tresp, Day & Associates, Inc.
Since 1992 · Multi-jurisdiction · Litigator-principal
Keep your assets where they belong, with you and your family.
Since 1992, Tresp, Day & Associates, Inc. has structured, and defended, offshore and domestic asset protection for clients worldwide. We don’t just draft trusts; Principal Attorney Elizabeth A. Tresp has extensive experience litigating trust and estate disputes, so your plan is built to hold when it’s tested.
The leaders in asset protection since 1992
Not the new kids on the block
Tresp, Day & Associates, Inc. provides global services for clients worldwide, safeguarding assets across diverse regions. A well-crafted asset protection strategy, a “wealth protection policy”, ensures peace of mind for you and your family. Effective protection requires preemptive planning; waiting until after a crisis is impractical. Establishing a comprehensive estate plan safeguards personal, business, and family assets from potential claims or lawsuits.
Who we protect
Built for people with something to lose.
Asset protection isn’t only for the ultra-wealthy. If you carry meaningful personal liability, the question is the same: what could a determined creditor reach?
Business Owners
Personal guarantees, veil-piercing, and operating risk can reach past your company into everything you own. We build the wall between your business and your personal wealth.
Physicians & Professionals
Malpractice limits get exceeded and some liabilities fall outside your policy entirely. A protection plan is the backstop your coverage isn’t.
Real Estate Investors
Every property adds exposure, tenants, premises, contracts. We insulate your portfolio so one claim can’t cascade across the rest.
High-Net-Worth Families
Wealth is a target. We shield family assets from lawsuits and probate while keeping you in control, and plan the transfer to the next generation.
The process
Consult, risk audit, engagement letter, draft and fund, administer. Fees follow the structure.
How we work →What the courts held
The same dozen cases every site cites. Read against the opinion text, not the marketing summary.
Case-law library →50-state table
DAPT status, seasoning, homestead, entireties, and charging orders, with corrections to charts that get single-member LLCs wrong.
Open the table →Our practice areas
We’ve got you covered
Asset Protection
Top-tier Domestic and Offshore Asset Protection Trusts (DAPT & OAPT), providing unmatched security and flexibility.
Learn more →Offshore Asset Protection
Trusts in the Cook Islands, Nevis, Belize, the Cayman Islands, the Bahamas, and the Crown Dependencies, the right jurisdiction for your situation.
Learn more →Domestic Asset Protection
Domestic asset protection trusts formed under favorable U.S. state law, strong protection, simpler and lower cost.
Learn more →High Net Worth Estate Planning
Estate planning that ensures your assets are distributed according to your wishes, don’t leave it to chance.
Learn more →Private Foundations
Control over investments and support for your chosen causes, with options to involve family in governance.
Learn more →Trust Administration
Guidance for trustees in setting up and managing trusts, fulfilling fiduciary duties and avoiding personal liability.
Learn more →Charitable Planning
Tailor tax-advantaged gifts to support the causes closest to your heart, one of the most rewarding parts of planning.
Learn more →Privacy Companies
Added protection for your assets, making it harder for opposing attorneys to access information about your entities.
Learn more →Business Succession Planning
Preserve and transition the business you’ve built, protecting its future for your family and successors.
Learn more →Attorney & businesswoman
Elizabeth A. Tresp, JD, LL.M.
Principal Attorney Elizabeth A. Tresp specializes in estate planning and trust and estate administration, with extensive experience litigating trust and estate disputes, including complex trust matters, the real-world experience that separates a plan built to hold from one built to sell. She is admitted in California, Wyoming, and Montana, and before the United States Tax Court and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of California.
She is a nationally recognized speaker in finance and investor circles. She appears on podcasts and at conferences across the country with voices her clients already know, including Peter Schiff, Ken McElroy, Dana Samuelson, Steve Streetman, Mike Maloney, Scott Saunders, and Robert Kiyosaki. The plan she describes on a stage is the same plan she will defend in court.
Elizabeth isn’t only an attorney, she’s a business owner and real-estate investor who understands her clients because she lives the same life, with commercial and residential holdings and ownership interests across multiple companies. She has been named a Super Lawyers Rising Star for six consecutive years and is a San Diego Business Journal honoree. Beyond the firm she volunteers at her children’s schools, supports local non-profits through her own 501(c)(3) organizations, and serves as Vice President of the board at North Coast Repertory Theatre.
The foundation
Kevin L. Day, JD, MBA (Ret.)
A nationally recognized asset protection attorney, author, and speaker, Kevin L. Day has spent decades teaching the strategies behind domestic and offshore trusts, the deep bench of experience the firm is built on. His work has been featured by The Elevation Group and in interviews on the fundamentals of protecting and preserving wealth.
When your plan involves advanced and offshore trusts, it matters that it comes from a firm whose foundation is genuine, decades-deep expertise, not a template.
Stay informed
Featured media
The Elevation Group
An Introduction to Asset Protection
Nationally recognized attorney Kevin Day on the importance of security and wealth preservation.
Watch →Interview · Twiizl Media
Estate Planning & Asset Protection Overview
Kevin Day discusses the basics of asset protection and estate planning, and why preparing early matters.
Watch →The Elevation Group · Ep. 9
Advanced & Offshore Trusts
A brief history of trusts and the various types, domestic and offshore, and when each fits.
Learn about offshore →
Protecting your assets, before it’s too late
Three decades protecting wealth for families and businesses.
Serving clients since
Offices, California & Wyoming
Domestic & offshore reach
Rated by our clients
Common questions
Asset protection, answered
What is asset protection and who needs it?
Asset protection is legal planning that places your wealth beyond the easy reach of future creditors and lawsuits. Anyone with assets to protect can benefit, business owners, physicians, real estate investors, and families, because insurance alone has limits. It works best when set up in calm legal waters, before a claim arises.
What is the difference between domestic and offshore asset protection?
A domestic asset protection trust (DAPT) is formed under a favorable U.S. state’s law; an offshore asset protection trust (OAPT), such as a Cook Islands trust, is formed in a foreign jurisdiction with strong debtor-protection statutes. Offshore structures generally offer the strongest protection and privacy, while domestic ones are simpler and less costly. We advise on both.
When should I set up asset protection?
Before you need it. Asset protection is most effective when implemented preemptively, in calm legal waters. Transferring assets after a lawsuit is threatened or filed can be challenged as a fraudulent transfer, so the time to plan is now, while no claims are pending.
How long has Tresp, Day & Associates been practicing asset protection?
Since 1992, more than three decades of offshore and domestic asset protection, estate planning, and business compliance. We not only structure Cook Islands and domestic trusts, Principal Attorney Elizabeth A. Tresp has extensive experience litigating trust and estate disputes, including complex trust matters, so plans are built by someone who knows how trust structures perform when they are actually challenged.
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This website is for general informational purposes and does not constitute legal advice or create an attorney-client relationship. Every situation is different; please consult a qualified attorney about your specific circumstances.
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