Asset protection is the lawful practice of holding wealth inside legally recognized structures so that future civil creditors have a harder time reaching it, and this field guide compares the domestic and offshore approaches feature by feature. It starts from the doctrine that governs everything else, the Uniform Voidable Transactions Act and its eleven badges of fraud, then works outward from the exemptions you already own for free to the deliberate toolkit of LLCs, charging orders, family limited partnerships, and trusts. It explains why domestic asset protection trusts represent a statutory break with centuries of common law, where the federalism cracks and the ten-year bankruptcy lookback of 11 U.S.C. section 548(e) leave them exposed, and how offshore trusts in the Cook Islands and Nevis deliver a jurisdictional moat that a U.S. judgment cannot cross. It anchors the analysis in primary authority, from Patterson v. Shumate and Clark v. Rameker to FTC v. Affordable Media, and it treats the compliance overlay, Forms 3520 and 3520-A, the FBAR, and FATCA, as central rather than incidental. The single lesson that ties it together is timing: protection built in clear weather is honored, and protection improvised under a filed lawsuit is unwound, and sometimes punished.