Plan your estate
Presents a guide on estate planning that covers property ownership laws, beneficiaries, probate avoidance, living trusts, joint tenancy, life insurance, estate taxes, wills, business ownership, and pensions.
| Main Author: | Clifford, Denis. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
Nolo,
2012.
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| Edition: | 11th ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Selecting your estate planning goals
- Personal concerns and estate planning
- Special property ownership rules for married people
- Inventorying your property
- Your beneficiaries
- Children
- Wills
- Probate and why you want to avoid it
- Living trusts
- Joint tenancy and tenancy by the entirety
- Pay-on-death designations, registrations, and deeds
- Life insurance
- Retirement benefits
- State law exemptions from normal probate
- Estate taxes
- Gifts and gift taxes
- An overview of ongoing trusts
- AB disclaimer trusts
- Other estate tax-saving marital trusts
- Charitable trusts
- Other estate tax-saving trusts
- Disclaimers: after-death estate tax planning
- Combining estate tax-saving trusts
- Property control trusts for second or subsequent marriages
- Trusts and other devices for imposing controls over property
- Incapacity: making medical and financial decisions
- Body and organ donation, funerals, and burials
- Family business estate planning
- Using lawyers
- After you complete your estate plan
- After a death occurs
- Some estate plans.