Plan your estate
| Main Author: | Clifford, Denis (Author) |
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| Corporate Authors: | Nolo (Firm) |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Berkeley, California :
Nolo,
2014.
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| Edition: | 12th edition. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Setting your goals. Selecting your estate planning goals ; Personal concerns and estate planning
- Laying the groundwork. Special property ownership rules for married people ; Inventorying your property ; Your beneficiaries
- Children
- Wills
- Probate and how to avoid it. 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
- Understanding estate and gift taxes. Estate taxes ; Gifts and gift taxes
- Reducing or eliminating estate 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
- Imposing controls over property. Property control trusts for second or subsequent mortgages ; Trust and other devices for imposing controls over property
- Taking care of personal issues. Incapacity : making medical and financial decisions ; Body and organ donation, funerals, and burials
- Family business. Family business estate planning
- Going further. Using lawyers ; After your complete your estate plan ; After a death occurs
- Sample estate plans.