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9781413308570

8 Ways to Avoid Probate

Estate planning? You can save your family time, money and peace of mind with a few easy steps. Probate court proceedings can drag on for years, and the costs--lawyer's fees, appraisal fees, court fees -- can easily eat up thousands of dollars that would otherwise go to your family. Luckily, there are simple and effective ways to completely avoid probate. Some are so simple that they can be taken care of in the time it takes to open a bank account-and most of them won't cost you a penny. With 8 Ways to Avoid Probate, learn how to take advantage of eight important -- and often overlooked -- probate-avoidance strategies: set up payable-on-death bank accounts, name a beneficiary for retirement accounts, register stocks & bonds, and vehicles, in transfer-on-death forms, hold property in joint ownership, take advantage of special procedures for small estates, create a living trust and give away property now. Updated state-by-state charts show you which probate-avoidance techniques are available where you live. 8 Ways to Avoid Probate also contains detailed examples of how combining probate-avoidance methods can work for you in different stages of your life.

Our Price $21.95

0937434469

Alpha A-B Living Trust Kit

The complete do-it-yourself A-B Trust Kit with an easily prepared Declaration of A-B Trust that includes a Trust "C" Q-tip Provisional Trust. Included also are Property Transfer Documents. Pour-Over last Will & Testament, Affidavit of Successor Trustee, Medical Certification, etc.

Our Price $24.95

0609809342

American Bar Association Guide to Wills and Estates: Everything You Need to Know about Wills, Trusts, Estates, And...

Written by a group of America's top lawyers, this book deals with those two certainties of life--death and taxes--providing expert, rock-solid legal counsel at a fraction of what it would cost to go to a lawyer. Amo ng the topics covered are living wills and how to avoid inheritance taxes.

Our Price $16.95

157248148X

Como Hacer Su Propio Testamento (How to Make Your Own Will, Spanish Edition)

Sin un testamento v�lido, las cortes podr�an transferir su propiedad o la protecci�n de sus ni�os a gente desconocida. Deje un testamento completo para salvaguardar a su familia del pesar innecesario sin el gasto y retraso de contratar a un abogado. Como Hacer su Propio Testamento contiene las explicaciones simples y todo lo que usted necesita para escribir su propio testamento legalmente. Este libro llega completo con instrucciones de paso a paso y los formularios que usted necesita para hacer su propio testamento barato y sin molestia. �Usted sab�a que...? �La copropiedad puede se�orear su testamento? �Su esposo puede se�orear su testamento? � El ser casado puede invalidar a su testamento? �Usted puede preparar su propio testamento? �Su testamento se puede ocultar de modo confidencial hasta su muerte? �Usted puede prohibir el uso de sistemas de respiraci�n artificiales si usted cae con una enfermedad fatal? Este libro explica en una formal simple: las leyes de herencia; la copropiedad; lcuentas del pagadero en defunci�n; los testamentos activos; nombramiento de un guardi�n para sus hijos menores. Incluye 16 Testamentos Entallados a su Situaci�n (This is the groundbreaking Spanish translation of How to Make Your Own Will, 2nd Edition. It includes information regarding living wills, guardianship of children and specific state statutes relating to the legality of various kinds of statutes relating to the legality of various kinds of wills. Besides covering all 50 states, this title also includes information relating to Puerto Rico. Close attention has been paid to the Hispanic user of this title. Besides the general content being translated, examples use Hispanic names and titles, forms are listed in Spanish with short Spanish descriptions (the forms themselves appear in English as required by law) and a glossary of legal terms are translated into Spanish. Like its English counterpart, this guide is designed to be user-friendly and includes easy-to-use, blank tear-out forms.)

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0471170445

Complete Book of Trusts

Everything you need to know to protect your hard-earned assets--This one-of-a-kind book, covers 30 different types of trusts. It shows how to set up a trust to manage assets in the event of disability or death, avoid probate, secure assets from Medicaid and creditors, minimize or eliminate estate and other transfer taxes, financially protect loved ones, and more...all within in the confines of the law. -- Includes coverage of the new "Disclaimer Credit Shelter Trust", and expanded information on GPRTS, GRATS, and GRUTS

Our Price $24.95

0471361054

Complete Living Trusts Program

This book is the most comprehensive book written to date on living tusts for individuals. It is designed to help anyone better control or manage their assets, protect themselves against the ravages of disability and avoid the need for probate or a court-appointed guardian. Author Martin Shenkman deftly explains how to use LLC companies to insulate assets from liability claims, how to use one's asset management account and must more. Each chapter includes simple-to-use sample checklists, relevant forms and numerous real-life examples.

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0471401404

Complete Will Kit

This is a revision of the successful Complete Will Kit, Second Edition. The authors have expanded the information regarding the importance of a will and estate planning due to recently increased values of stocks and bonds and the effects of inheritance. Numerous revisions reflect current federal and state requirements and tax codes. One completely revised chapter reflects a more contemporaneous estate tax situation.

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0132846624

Essential Guide to a Living Will: How to Protect Your Right to Refuse Medical Treatment

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter B.D. Colen details exactly how to write and videotape a legally sanctioned document that can speak for you when you can no longer speak for yourself. He offers a comprehensive, compassionate look at all the legal, ethical and medical issues involved in preparing a Living Will, including an in-depth review of the specific technologies and treatments in question, how to determine which treatments you want to receive and when you want to them to stop and the rights and responsibilities of patients, families, health-care providers and attorneys.

Our Price $7.95

9781413310504

Estate Planning Basics

Estate planning -- not exactly the way most people would like to spend a free, sunny weekend (or even a rainy one). The process sounds arduous, time-consuming and more than a little scary.In order to make estate planning as painless as possible, Nolo presents Attorney Denis Clifford's handbook, Estate Planning Basics. This Quick & Legal book provides concise, straightforward and easy-to-read explanations of the major components of estate planning, so that regular folks don't have to spend hours wading through endless options (most of which apply to the wealthy). These explanations include: - choosing beneficiaries- estate planning by parents with minor children- wills- living trusts- other probate avoidance methods, including using a retirement plan like an IRA or 401(k) as an estate planning device- estate taxes, and tax reduction methods- trusts for people in second marriages, or for those leaving property to a disabled person- planning for the handling of medical and financial decisions if one becomes incompetent.With over twenty years of experience in helping people plan their estates, Attorney Denis Clifford gives readers the reliable, plain-English answers they need, whether they're doling out the family heirlooms or steering clear of estate taxes. And now, thanks to Estate Planning Basics, these tasks don't have to take all weekend.

Our Price $24.95

1558508619

Everyone Needs a Will

This simple, easy-to-understand guide includes detailed instructions, completed sample forms, affadavits, extensive glossaries and all the necessary blank forms for you to use to minimize expensive attorney fees in preparing your will. Ready-to-use documents are included for married people with children, married people without children, unmarried people with children; unmarried people without children and those making specific bequests. This book shows you clearly and concisely how to avoid the complicated and expensive legal problems that can arise when a person dies without a will (as the majority of Americans do). Residents of every state except Louisiana may use this book to write a legally binding will.

Our Price $9.95

0471148857

Guide to Asset Protection: How to Keep What's Legally Yours

You've worked long and hard for your assets, from your business and home to hard-earned savings and investments. To safeguard them--particularly against liability suits, this book offers proven strategies to help you keep what you may have spent a lifetime earning. Written by an attorney who specializes in tax-, estate-, and asset protection planning, this indispensable reference is filled with sound advice and practical tips on how to avoid the litigation jungle, as well as revealing insight on how creditors find and get at your assets. Actual case histories and model agreements steer you through the essentials, including: protection through trusts -- irrevocable trusts and gift taxes, life insurance trusts, foreign asset protection trusts (FAPTs); fraudulent conveyances--the laws of fraudulent transfers, what fraudulent conveyance is (and is not); asset protection for married couples--separate and community property, transmutation agreements; using family limited partnerships -- limited liability companies; employing qualified retirement plans -- anti-alienation rule, nonqualified retirement plans, individual retirement accounts (IRAs); filing bankruptcy to protect your assets -- dischargeable taxes, pre-bankruptcy planning, Chapter 7 and Chapter 13.

Our Price $19.95

157248246X

How to Make a California Will

Without a will, probate laws decide what happens to property upon death. This book explains California law regarding wills, inheritance, guardianship of children, and joint property; shows how you can prepare your own simple will without a lawyer; and includes 14 ready-to-use forms. It also covers changing a will, living wills, and anatomical gifts (organ donation).

Our Price $16.95

9781413310313

IRAs 401Ks & Other Retirement Plans

Distributions from Retirement Plans are like the pot of gold at the end of the career rainbow. Distribution rules, on the other hand, are the potholes along the way. Unfortunately, anyone who wants to take money out of an IRA or retirement plan has to maneuver through these rules, taking care to avoid potential penalties: penalties for early distributions, penalties for late distributions, or penalties for improper distributions to a beneficiary or former spouse. IRAs, 401(k)s and Other Retirement Plans offers an abundance of clear, smart ways to navigate these tricky rules and avoid penalties. Written by two experts in tax and investment planning, the book presents the different types of retirement plans that are affected by distribution rules. It covers the tax options available to individuals when they either change employers or retire and have to take all of their money out of the employer's qualified plan. The book also examines IRAs and the new Roth IRAs: how to take distributions from them, designate beneficiaries and avoid even more potential penalties. IRAs, 401(k)s and Other Retirement Plans is perfect for anyone who has been covered by an employer retirement plan, anyone who has maintained an IRA, stockbrokers, investment advisors, bankers, lawyers and accountants. The only book of its kind for lay readers and professionals, IRAs puts everyone squarely on the path to their pot of gold.

Our Price $34.95

0803893345

Living Will Handbook: The Right to Decide Your Own Fate

All Americans have the legal right to decide what medical treatment they wish to receive. They usually choose a specific course of treatment after discussing the benefits and risks with their physicians. Often the nature of one's illness affects the patient's ability to make such decisions. However, the legal right to determine one's health care can be maintained after the patient's mental or physical ability to communicate is impaired. This right is preserved with a Living Will document written one day, one week, one, five, ten or twenty years prior to the onset of the illness. A Living Will provides a series of written instructions to doctors as to what care the patient wishes to accept or reject. The doctor is legally obligated to follow the patient's instructions, even when the patient is no longer able to act for himself or herself. The Living Will relieves loved ones of the burden of having to make difficult decisions and alleviates the legal and social pressures which foster extended care beyond the point deemed desirable by the patient. This handbook provides you with everything you need to know to prepare your own Living Will with forms for 50 states included. You'll learn the legal and medical reasons you need one, how to decide a proxy and how to prepare for the future. Also included is a discussion of how religions view Living Wills.

Our Price $12.95

9781413309577

Living Wills & Powers of Attorney for California

Create a living will and more with all the forms and information California families need.Living Wills & Powers of Attorney for California helps families avoid legal problems if they ever become unable to make health care or financial decisions for themselves. Step by step, it takes readers through the creation of a: * Living Will (known as an "Advance Health Care Directive") * Durable Power of Attorney for Finance * Do Not Resuscitate OrderYou'll also get a wallet card you can use to alert others to the existence of your advance directive, plus forms you can use if you ever want to revise or revoke a document. All forms are available as tear-outs and on a CD-ROM.The fully updated 3rd edition of Living Wills & Powers of Attorney for California offers an all-new bonus CD to walk you through the intricacies of planning final arrangements, along with expanded information on making difficult medical choices. Plus, your pets will be able to get the care they need in an emergency with the updated durable financial power of attorney.

Our Price $29.95