In the Cook Islands your assets are protected as soon as they are placed in a Cook Islands Trust.  If anyone wants to challenge the ownership of those assets in the Trust, then they have to go to the Cook Islands and convince a Cook Islands Judge beyond a reasonable doubt why they should have access to the assets in the Cook Island Trust.   The case history of litigation and the actual law in the Cook Islands is crippling to those who want assets from a Cook Island Trust and together act as an enormous deterrent for any Plaintiff to try and fight a trust in the Cook Islands.  There is a short fuse for anyone claiming a fraudulent transfer in the Cook Islands, that being one (1) year, to two (2) year statute of limitations on fraudulent transfers. That is, one year from the time that you register and fund the trust, or two years from the cause of action (the reason for which the plaintiff filed the lawsuit from the time the event gave rise to a claim).  The Cook Islands court will refuse to hear a case outside of those timelines.  After these periods of time have passed, creditors are no longer able to bring legal actions to challenge the trust.  That means a bankruptcy court has NO power over a Cook Island Trust outside of those transfer parameters. Interestingly, the Nevis LLC has similar benefits business operation protection that the Cook Island Trust has for overall asset protections.  There is a one year statute of limitation on claims and there are ways.  Nevis does not recognize US charging orders or judgements.   These are the most common questions. The bottom line is that the Cook Islands law and Nevis law provide the most powerful asset protection and business operations protection currently available to any US Citizen.