Beneficiary guide for everyone How to receive what's yours from estates, trusts, and more

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Subjects: Estate planning > United States.

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handbooks.

Handbooks and manuals.

Law for laypersons.
Genres: handbooks
Handbooks and manuals
Law for laypersons
Published: New York : Allworth Press [2025]
Language: English
Main Author: Ronald Farrington Sharp (author)
Item Description: Includes index.
Physical Description: vi, 185 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN: 9781621538073

Introduction
Chapter 1. Stages of Planning
Chapter 2. Revocable and Irrevocable Beneficiaries
Chapter 3. If You are the Grantor
Chapter 4. Powers of Attorney
Chapter 5. Trustees and Trust Directors
Chapter 6. Fairness in Naming Heirs
Chapter 7. The Family Cottage: Solutions to Joint Ownership Problems
Chapter 8. Trusting Your Trustee
Chapter 9. Ignoring the Wishes of the Deceased
Chapter 10. The Family Business
Chapter 11. Special Needs Trusts
Chapter 12. Ladybird Deeds
Chapter 13. Gifting
Chapter 14. Estate Planning Using Beneficiary Designations
Chapter 15. Should You Write Your Own Will or Trust?
Chapter 16. How to Guarantee that Your Estate is Probated
Chapter 17. Will Contests
Chapter 18. Legal Rights of Beneficiaries: Knowledge is Power
Chapter 19. Estate Planning from the Heart: Distributing a Legacy in a Heartfelt Way
Chapter 20. Equal Division May Not be Fair
Chapter 21. Beneficiary Designations for Trusts and Wills
Chapter 22. The Stuff, and How to Get Rid of It
Chapter 23. Do You Really Want to be the Trustee?
Chapter 24. Burials and Funerals: What Is the Process?
Chapter 25. Now You are a Beneficiary
Chapter 26. The Reading of the Will Ceremony
Chapter 27. Unfair, Weird, Unlawful, or Impossible Will Instructions
Chapter 28. Pet Trusts
Chapter 29. Preserving and Accessing Digital Assets
Chapter 30. Settling the Estate
Appendix
Glossary
Index