The American Bar Association guide to wills & estates Everything you need to know about wills, estates, trusts, and taxes
Book - 2012
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New York :
Random House Reference
[2012]
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Corporate Author
- Edition
- Fourth edition
- Physical Description
- xiii, 402 pages : forms ; 21 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes index.
- ISBN
- 9780375723858
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part 1. First Steps
- 1. Why You Should Plan Your Estate: How You Can Save Money and Be Sure You've Done It Right
- 2. Getting Started: Don't Procrastinate
- Part 2. Transferring Property Without a Will: You Have Many Ways of Getting Money to People Without Fuss or Delay
- 3. Lots of Little "Wills": Your Guide to Will Substitutes
- 4. Life Insurance: An Old Standby Has Lots of Uses
- 5. Joint Tenancy: It's Easy and Cheap-but Watch Out for Pitfalls
- Part 3. Wills: What Should Be in Yours?
- 6. Wills 101: The Basics
- 7. What Goes in the Will: What to Put In and What to Leave Out
- 8. After the Will Is Written: Follow These Steps to Be Sure Your Will Does the Job
- Part 4. Trusts and Living Trusts: They Can Do a Lot-but They're Not for Everyone
- 9. How Trusts Work: A Quick Look at a Misunderstood Tool
- 10. Do You Need a Trust?: As Usual in the Law, It Depends
- 11. Living Trusts 101: The Basics
- 12. Setting Up a Living Trust: Your Guide to Doing It Right
- Part 5. Putting the Tools to Work: Some Tips for People with Particular Needs
- 13. Providing for the Kids: Tips for Every Age of Offspring
- 14. Married... With or Without Children: Most of Us Want to See That Our Spouse Is Taken Care of, but How?
- 15. Splitting Up: Divorce and Remarriage
- 16. Beyond Convention: No Two Families Are the Same
- 17. Estate Planning for Those with Chronic Illness
- 18. Estate Planning for Business Owners: The Law Gives You Lots of Options-but You Have to Use Them Well
- 19. Providing Income for Your Final Years: Estate Planning and Retirement
- 20. Controlling Costs in Your Final Years: Paying for Long-Term Care
- Part 6. Death and Taxes: Strategies for Holding On to As Much As You Can
- 21. Death and Taxes: Trying to Make Sense Out of Rules That Keep Changing
- 22. Tax Planning 101: Trusts
- 23. Tax Planning 102: The Benefits of Living Gifts and Life Insurance
- Part 7. When You Can't Make the Decision: Confronting Your Biggest Fear Now Can Make a Big Difference Later
- 24. Delegating Decisions: Advance Directives
- 25. Planning for End-of-Life Decisions: Living Wills and Organ Donation
- Part 8. Putting the Plan into Action After Your Death: Steps You Can Take Now to Help Your Survivors
- 26. Easing the Burden on Your Family: There's a Lot You Can Do to Help-Now
- 27. Choosing the Executor: Some Tips on Getting the Right Person
- 28. Trustees: You Can Choose a Person or a Company to Get the Job Done
- 29. Probate: A Quick Primer on How It's Done
- Where Do You Go From Here?
- Appendix A. Estate-Planning Checklist
- Appendix B. Sample Basic Will (Annotated)
- Appendix C. Health-Care Advance Directive
- Index