The Smart Woman’s Guide to Building and Protecting Wealth: The Laws of Your Money

A Practical, No-Nonsense Approach to Building, Safeguarding, and Sharing Wealth on Any Scale

Want a new level of wealth? You need a new playbook! The average person carrying debt works two months each year just to pay the interest they are carrying on their credit cards, mortgages, or student and auto loans. Even those with no major debts are vulnerable to astronomical long-term care costs, financially ruinous relationships, lawsuits, and taxes.

The Smart Woman’s Guide to Building and Protecting Wealth demonstrates how new strategies for creating, safeguarding, and sharing wealth are not only each necessary activities, they are interdependent. Strategically and simultaneously tackling all three areas has the effect of turbo-charging wealth-building.

Author and attorney Ann-Margaret Carrozza shares her journey from public assistance to the one percent, employing wisdom gained from counseling more than 20,000 clients to help readers recognize and vanquish their lurking legal landmines. No money to invest? No problem--learn to recognize and deploy nontraditional assets to generate wealth and banish the scarcity mentality while protecting the bottom line. Developing these skills allows for joyful generosity with others and powers the creation of sustainable wealth.

Ann-Margaret Carrozza is a practicing wealth and estate-planning attorney who served as a New York State assemblywoman for fourteen years. She has the highest possible attorney rating and is regularly featured as an expert legal contributor on television shows such as ET, Extra, Inside Edition, Good Morning America, FoxBusiness, The Doctors, and Dr. Phil. She lives on Long Island, New York, with her husband, William Duke, MD, their sons, Billy and Danny, and furry family members, Lucky and Rocky.