If you're certain that the business relationship is irrevocably damaged, remember that many  disputes are resolved in the court of public opinion.

An Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust can move wealth out of an estate and to the beneficiary bypassing estate taxes. 

I spoke to a company that works with my CPA that has offered to create me an irrevocable trust in order to reduce my passive income tax liability to zero, reduce my active income (real estate commission) to nearly nothing, and make it bullet proof.

They didn't mention the idea of opportunity costs, because I want you to add those amounts up and brainstorm all the ways you can never spend it once you commit.Ask them how much it will cost to make sure that living/revocable trust will cost to structure so when it becomes irrevocable all transfers are carried out correctly.

These properties are in NC and SC and we are also looking for reasonable attorney recommendations for good, solid asset protection plans that involve LLCs owned by another company and possibly an irrevocable trust of some sort on top of that (not totally foreign).

I have a revocable trust here in Idaho, as well as an irrevocable trust that is domiciled in Utah by virtue of its corporate administrative trustee and bank account.  

The penalties for prohibited transactions are so severe (immediate and irrevocable distribution of the entire IRA) that I don't think you would want to try to do any skirting.

Now, an irrevocable trust can be formed to shield assets, but that is a whole other enchilada.

The members of my LLCs are my wife and I, as trustees of an IRREVOCABLE trust.

Person B set up an irrevocable generation skipping trust that has  47 1/2% % which is NON-voting.