Plan your estate

"All you need to know about: wills & trusts; estate & gift taxes; avoiding probate; powers of attorney & living wills"--Cover.

Main Author: Clifford, Denis (Author)
Corporate Authors: Nolo (Firm)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Berkeley, California : Nolo, 2018.
Edition: 14th edition.
Subjects:
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
  • Sample estate plans.