Twenty-one US states now have domestic asset protection (DAPT) statutes. Some commentators initially thought that DAPT statutes would be limited to smaller populous states, but with Ohio's entry into the DAPT arena, the DAPT list gained a populous state that is also a major banking center. Further, Tennessee, Indiana, and Missouri all have DAPT statutes, and there are 16 of them^th until 18^th the most populous states. While the history of DAPTs is quite recent in