Throughout recorded history people have sought ways to protect what they've worked hard to create and accumulate. Protection is sometimes required from those that would lull you into believing that they are in fact your protector, such as the tax collector, the bureaucracy, and your home legal system.
Modern times require a multitude of strategies to deal with the current complexity of threats.
Many asset protection tools have become common place. The corporation is one of the most common such strategies. A corporation can buy and sell, own and control assets of every description, sue or be sued. The corporate entity is now so commonplace that most people have forgotten that corporations were originally formed solely for asset protection reasons. Where the corporation was formed, what information is in the public record, and the corporation's legal home jurisdiction, can be extremely important.