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Your Estate Matters: Gifts, Estates, Wills, Trusts, Taxes and Other Estate Planning Issues

admin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:23:29 +0000

Your Estate Matters is a book which has grown out of my weekly newspaper column. It answers, in a no-nonsense way, questions about the estate planning, taxation, estate settlement and financial issues faced by most ordinary Americans. It is not written for lawyers and accountants. It is written for average people who want to better understand their financial options and better understand what their financial advisors are trying to say. Your Estate Matters sets out to demystify confusing legal terms, describe planning techniques and offer practical down-to-earth explanations about the complicated ins and outs of estate planning and estate administration. It also includes other information that affects every family's life and pocketbook: income tax, living wills, trusts, pre-nuptial agreements, college savings, and retirement planning. The information is useful to retirees, business people, and children of aging parents as well as those planning their own estates.

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Wills and Estates, 4th Edition

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:23:29 +0000

Includes a CD-ROM, updated tax information, and more. The 70% of Americans who don't have a will would be happy to know that most of them can complete this manageable task-as well as estate planning-without a lawyer. In fact, all they need is this guidebook, complete with an essential CD-ROM with forms for wills and estate planning. Together, the CD and the book cover everything from trusts to taxes. *Includes a CD-ROM with simple forms for drawing wills and estate planning *A revision and update on tax information from the last edition *Full of everything the reader must consider and include

American Bar Association Guide to Wills and Estates, Third Edition: Everything You Need to Know About Wills, Estates, Trusts, and Taxes (American Bar Association Guide to Wills & Estates)

admin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:23:29 +0000

The American Bar Association Guide to Wills & Estates, Third Edition, contains everything you need to know about planning an estate, preparing a will or trust, and minimizing inheritance taxes. It is organized in easy-to-follow chapters with sidebars containing tips, checklists, and key information.The ABA Guide to Wills & Estates will help you:â�¢ Determine what to put in an estate planâ�¢ Decide whether to prepare a will, trust, or living trustâ�¢ Avoid or reduce estate taxesâ�¢ Change plans if the law or your circumstances changeâ�¢ Transfer property without a will with substitutes such as life insurance and joint tenancyâ�¢ Understand the benefits of living gifts and life insuranceâ�¢ Choose an executor and trusteeâ�¢ Guard against a will being contested

Emanuel Law Outlines: Wills, Trusts, and Estates (Print + eBook Bonus Pack)

admin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:23:29 +0000

Keyed to the popular Wills, Trusts, and Estates Casebook by Jesse Dukeminier. The most trusted name in law school outlines, Emanuel Law Outlines support your class preparation, provide reference for your outline creation, and supply a comprehensive breakdown of topic matter for your entire study process. Created by Steven Emanuel, these course outlines have been relied on by generations of law students. Each title includes both capsule and detailed versions of the critical issues and key topics you must know to master the course. Also included are exam questions with model answers, an alpha-list of cases, and a cross reference table of cases for all of the leading casebooks.

New York Trusts & Estates Law Blog

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:23:29 +0000


Comments on New York estate planning, wills and trusts, probate litigation and elder lawKindle blogs are fully downloaded onto your Kindle so you can read them even when you're not wirelessly connected. And unlike RSS readers which often only provide headlines, blogs on Kindle give you full text content and images, and are updated wirelessly throughout the day.

The American Bar Association Guide to Wills and Estates, Second Edition: Everything You Need to Know About Wills, Estates, Trusts, and Taxes (American Bar Association Guide to Wills & Estates)

admin — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 17:23:29 +0000

Estate planning is for everyone who wants to protect the ones they love.The American Bar Association Guide to Wills & Estates, Second Edition, contains everything you need to know about planning an estate, preparing a will or trust, and minimizing inheritance taxes. Organized in easy-to-follow chapters with sidebars containing tips, checklists, and key information, this book will show you how to make plans that will be carried out exactly as you wish.The ABA Guide to Wills & Estates will help you:â�¢ Take steps to help your family nowâ�¢ Determine what to put in your estate planâ�¢ Decide whether to prepare a will, trust, or living trustâ�¢ Avoid or reduce estate taxesâ�¢ Change your plans if the law or your circumstances changeâ�¢ Transfer property without a will with substitutes such as life insurance and joint tenancyâ�¢ Understand the benefits of living gifts and life insuranceâ�¢ Choose an executor and trusteeâ�¢ Ensure that your will won't be contested

Wills, Trusts and Estates Examples & Explanations, 4e

admin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:23:29 +0000

This popular study guide helps students master the complexities of wills, trusts, and estates through a combination of textual material and well-written, comprehensive examples, explanations, and questions. Examples & Explanations: Wills, Trusts, and Estates, Fourth Edition, provides students with the essential background and review materials they need to practice applying legal concepts to fact patterns. Among the features that make this high-quality study guide popular with both students and instructors: <ul> <li class="copymedium"> comprehensive coverage — the text covers intestacy, wills, and trusts, including nonprobate assets, estate administration, wealth transfer taxation (gift tax, estate tax, generation-skipping transfer tax), disability and death planning, and malpractice/professional responsibility </li> <li class="copymedium"> a conversational writing style that is clear, accessible, and holds students¿ interest </li> <li class="copymedium"> uses the Examples & Explanations format to help students learn in a step-by-step manner and also includes comprehensive questions, with a variety of issues in one fact situation, that are similar to those on law school and bar examinations </li> <li class="copymedium"> casebook correlation charts that make it easy to use the study guide with any of the seven most popular casebooks </li> <li class="copymedium"> a "learning by doing" approach that provides students with the opportunity to evaluate how well they can apply what they have just learned </li> <li class="copymedium"> practical suggestions throughout the text that enhance its pedagogical value and give students an appreciation of the how the concepts apply in the real world </li> <li class="copymedium"> samples of will and trust provisions and an extensively annotated model will </li> <li class="copymedium"> an overview of general nationwide rules </li> <li class="copymedium"> a comprehensive, student-friendly index that allows students to easily find the information they seek </li> <li class="copymedium"> tables for quick location of material relevant to the Uniform Probate Code, Uniform Trust Code, and Internal Revenue Code </li> <li class="copymedium"> updates available on author's website: <a href="http://www.professorbeyer.com/" target="_blank"> www.ProfessorBeyer.com</a> </li> </ul> Fine-tuned and updated, the Fourth Edition offers: <ul> <li class="copymedium"> materials on recent developments, including: transfer of death deeds; self-settled spendthrift trusts; Rule Against Perpetuities reform; federal gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer tax; Uniform Trust Code; rights of same-sex partners; Medicaid planning; physician-assisted suicide </li> <li class="copymedium"> revised examples that reflect the updated content </li> <li class="copymedium"> updated casebook correlation tables reflecting new editions of the major casebooks </li> </ul>

Wills, Trusts, and Estates (Casebook)

admin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:23:29 +0000

Regarded as one of the best casebooks available for any course, this comprehensive text combines interesting cases, well-tailored notes, and a clear organization into an excellent teaching tool. The new Seventh Edition retains the late Jesse Dukeminierâ��s unique blend of wit, erudition, insight, and playfulness and covers all the key topics in a logical, clear organization. Included are interesting cases that are not only fun to read, but fun for professors to teach as well. Cases are enhanced and connected to broader legal principles by well-written notes, questions, and problems and cartoons, illustrations, and photographs provide humorous interruptions and visual commentary at appropriate places within the text. New authors James Lindgren and Robert Sitkoff updated the book to reflect legal change while remaining careful to retain the same interesting mix of cases, engaging notes and flexible organization that makes this a highly successful casebook. Additions and improvements to the previous edition include due attention to new developments in law reform by the ALI and NCCUSL such as: Restatement Third, Trusts (2003, Uniform Trust Code (2000) including proposed 2004 amendments, Restatement (Third) of Property: Wills and Other Donative Transfers (2001, 2003)and Uniform Disclaimer of Property Interests Act (2002. Attention is given to ongoing developments in the law such as inheritance rights of posthumously conceived children, standing of donors in suits against the trustees of charitable trusts, the rise of domestic offshore self-settled spendthrift trusts, the erosion of the rule against perpetuities and the rise of the perpetual, generation-skipping trust. There is enhanced coverage of increasingly important topics such as fiduciary administration and trust investment law (including modern portfolio theory, diversification, the principal and income problem, and measuring damages; and inheritance rights of same-sex partners, inheritance rights of children, with comparison to the other common law countries (which are far more generous to children). Also included is a more logical presentation of nonprobate transfers and their role in estate planning, fully updated tax chapter with attention to new developments such as the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001. Notes, questions, and problems have been revised throughout where appropriate in light of the foregoing and other developments.