Compliance
An asset protection structure is only as good as its upkeep.
The design is legal work. Keeping every entity filed, documented, and in good standing is ours, and it is where most structures quietly fail.
Who does what
This is worth being precise about, because the two halves are genuinely different work performed by genuinely different companies.
| Work | Who does it |
|---|---|
| Designing the protection strategy; advising on trusts and entity structure; any question of what the law permits | Tresp, Day & Associates, Inc., an independent law firm |
| Forming the entities; acting as registered agent; filing annual reports; maintaining minutes, resolutions, and corporate records | Tresp Corporate Services, LLC |
What the compliance program covers
Ongoing upkeep
- Records review. An initial audit of the entities in your structure to find gaps, missed filings, undocumented decisions, entities that have lapsed.
- Entity maintenance. Registered agent of record, annual reports, and state filings across every jurisdiction your structure touches.
- Documentation. Minutes and resolutions evidencing that each entity is operated as a separate, real company rather than a name on a filing.
- Ongoing monitoring. Regular checks so a lapse is caught in weeks, not discovered years later when it matters.
- Coordination. When something arrives that needs an attorney's eyes, we route it rather than sit on it.
Why maintenance is where structures fail
Most asset protection structures are not defeated by a clever legal argument against their design. They are defeated because somewhere along the way an entity was administratively dissolved, minutes were never kept, an address went stale, or the same bank account was used for everything. The structure was sound on paper and hollow in practice.
That failure mode is entirely preventable and it is entirely administrative, which is precisely why it should be somebody's job rather than something you intend to get to.
An important limit
Tresp Corporate Services provides corporate, registered-agent, and compliance services. We do not provide legal advice, do not assess whether a given structure will protect you, and do not represent you in any dispute. Those are legal questions. Nothing on this page is a prediction about how any structure will perform against any particular claim.
Getting started
If you already have a structure in place, the first step is a records review so you know what is current and what is not. If you are still building one, start with the attorneys, the design should come first, and we can pick up the maintenance once it exists.
Have a structure already? Start with a records review.
We will tell you what is current, what has lapsed, and what it takes to fix.
Common questions
Frequently asked
Does Tresp Corporate Services provide asset protection legal advice?
No. Tresp Corporate Services, LLC is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. Asset protection strategy, trust design, and entity structuring are handled by the independent law firm Tresp, Day & Associates, Inc. Tresp Corporate Services handles entity formation, registered agent service, state filings, and corporate records maintenance.
Why do asset protection structures fail?
Most commonly for administrative reasons rather than legal ones: an entity is administratively dissolved for a missed annual report, corporate minutes were never kept, or the entities were never operated as genuinely separate companies. A structure that is sound in design can still be hollow in practice if nobody maintains it.
What does a records review involve?
We audit every entity in your structure against the relevant Secretary of State records to identify missed filings, lapsed entities, stale addresses, and gaps in your corporate documentation, then tell you what it takes to bring each one current.
Tresp Corporate Services, LLC provides corporate, registered-agent, and compliance services and does not provide legal advice. For legal matters, we work in tandem with the independent law firm Tresp, Day & Associates, Inc. This page is general information only.
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