Your living trust and estate plan
Subtitle: how to maximize your family's assets  and protect your loved ones
By: Harvey J. Platt.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Allworth Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Estate planning -- United States -- Popular works; Living trusts -- United States -- Popular works
Genres: Popular works.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The development of an estate plan; title: Selecting who receives the benefits of your estate; title: Wills; title: Understanding the probate process; title: Co-ownership of property; title: Trusts; title: The role of trusts in estate planning; title: The living trust; title: Understanding and minimizing estate tax; title: Gifts; title: Charitable contributions; title: Generation-skipping tax; title: Grits, grats, and gruts; title: Life insurance; title: The significance of your domicile; title: The power of the survivor; title: The subsequent marriage-premarital and postmarital agreements; title: Planning for minors; title: Estate planning for families with children who have special needs; title: Persons with risk of AIDs; title: Surrogate planning for the senior citizen; title: Retirement benefits; title: Medicare and medicaid; title: The protection of assets; title: The family limited partnership and the Limited Liability Company; title: Estate planning for the business owner; title: Estate planning for the surviving spouse; title: The cutting edge: value reduction strategy in discount planning; title: Concluding thoughts.