Plan your estate
By: by Denis Clifford.
Edition: 9th ed.
Publisher: Nolo
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9781413307610
Subjects: Estate planning -- United States -- Popular works
Genres: Popular works
Notes: "Protect your loved ones, property & finances"--Cover.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Setting your goals. Selecting your estate planning goals; title: Personal concerns and estate planning; title: pt. 2. Laying the groundwork. Special property ownership rules for married people; title: Inventorying your property; title: Your beneficiaries; title: pt. 3. Children; title: pt. 4. Wills; title: pt. 5. Probate and how to avoid it. Probate and why you want to avoid it; title: Living trusts; title: Joint tenancy and tenancy by the entirety; title: Pay-on-death designations : bank accounts, securities, stocks and bonds, motor vehicles; title: Life insurance; title: Retirement benefits; title: State law exemptions from normal probate; title: pt. 6. Understanding estate and gift taxes. Estate taxes; title: Gifts and taxes; title: pt. 7. Reducing or eliminating estate taxes. An overview of ongoing trusts; title: Estate tax-saving bypass trusts; title: Other estate tax-saving marital trusts; title: Other estate tax-saving trusts; title: Disclaimers : after-death estate tax planning; title: Combining estate tax-saving trusts; title: pt. 8 Imposing controls over property. Property control trusts for second or subsequent marriages; title: Trust and other devices for imposing controls over property; title: pt. 9. Taking care of personal issues. Incapacity : making medical and financial decisions; title: Body and organ donation, funerals, and burials; title: pt. 10. Family business estate planning; title: pt. 11. Going further. Using lawyers; title: After you complete your estate; title: After a death occurs; title: pt. 12. Sample estate plans. Some estate plans; title: appendix. State inheritance tax rules.