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Title:Complete Guide to Planning Your Estate : A Step-by-Step Plan to Protect Your Assets, Limit Your Taxes, & Ensure Your Wishes are Fulfilled
Author:Sandy Baker
ISBN:1601380496 : 9781601380494
Illustrations:b/w photos
Format:Paperback
Size:155x230mm
Pages:288
Weight: .47 Kg.
Published:Atlantic Publishing Group Inc - April 2007
List Price: 16.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Personal finance: Wills & probate: Law for the lay person


This book explains the complicated issues, terminology, and planning strategies of estate planning to the lay person so that when you do meet with a qualified attorney, you will be well prepared. You will understand legal terms and be ready to discuss issues and strategies with familiarity, saving time and legal fees and ensuring peace of mind. Some of the contents of the book are wills, assets, and settlement costs, probate, guardianship and minor children, executors and trustees, life insurance, living trusts, living wills, durable power of attorney, catastrophic illness, potential long-term care needs, marital deductions, types of trusts, federal and state estate exemptions, irrevocable life insurance trusts, gift splitting, survivorship deeds, charitable remainder trusts, 529 plans, health care proxy, power of attorney, reducing or eliminating estate taxes, avoiding tax on life insurance, using insurance to pay estate taxes, gift tax issues, generation skipping transfer tax, and tax deferred accounts. Estate planning should be a positive experience. It involves reviewing your situation and planning for your future. Although most people also find it unpleasant to think about the possibility of disability or death, advance planning is also a way to show your love and to reduce potential distress later. Get started today.

Introduction; An Introduction to Estate Planning; What Are You Worth?; Your Will: The Definition of Your Estate Plan; Laws That You Have to Deal With; Probate: Avoid it at All Costs; Will Substitutions That Save; Taxes: Estate Tax & Other Taxes; Lowering Your Federal Estate Taxes; Trusts: Trusting & Your Estate; Your Estate Plan & Your Retirement Money; What Happens When; Putting It All Together.