
Here's a simple checklist of common issues to consider when you are thinking of buying an existing medical practice or buying out a retiring partner / practice owner.

Attorney Ike Devji has 20 years of legal experience focused exclusively on asset protection, risk management and wealth preservation. He helps protect a national client base with more than $6 billion in personal assets, including several thousand physicians. He is a contributing author to multiple books for physicians, a Physicians Practice contributor for over a decade and a frequent national CME presenter. Learn more at www.ProAssetProtection.com.

Here's a simple checklist of common issues to consider when you are thinking of buying an existing medical practice or buying out a retiring partner / practice owner.

Here are some key issues for either physicians on their way to starting up their own medical practice, or current owners seeking ways to refine their current office.

Here's an answer to a common question from physicians: "How can I quickly figure out what I have exposed at any given time?"

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Here are some specific dos and don'ts when it comes to physicians using limited partnerships in a legally defensible way.

Here are some simple tips and rules for physicians to use your limited partnership in a legal and defensible way.

Among the tools commonly used for a variety of asset protection and estate planning purposes is the familiar “limited partnership” commonly referred to as a “family limited partnership.”

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Be willing to take action and responsibility as the CEO of your medical business including delegating the management of financial issues to experts.

You've doubtless put a lot of thought and research into your new computers … but how you dispose of the old equipment is just as vital a choice for your practice.

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Physicians should know how and if you can walk away from an underwater mortgage as a strategic financial move and as part of your asset protection plan.

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While medical practices vary widely in complexity and income, the successful ones all share one common trait: they plan ahead and look to the past for guidance.

Part of the hesitation to dismiss practice employees is based on the fact that most people don’t know how to fire and discipline in a safe and effective way.

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Given the power of the Internet and the unmistakable reach and shelf life of a digital complaint, it’s more important than ever to both have and defend a professional reputation.

We all like to think our kids are better behaved, smarter, and more sensible than the ones we see in the news or read about, but their exposure to potential lawsuits often arise from mundane activities you never dreamed would be an issue.

One way the federal government is raising revenue is by more strictly enforcing existing tax codes and by hiring a vast number of new revenue agents to take a hard look at many of the issues that are commonly ignored. An example of this is the gift tax.