The executor's handbook
Subtitle: a step-by-step guide to settling an estate for executors, administrators, and beneficiaries
By: Theodore E. Hughes and David Klein
Contributors: Klein, David, 1919-2001
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Checkmark Books; Infobase Holdings, Inc.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780816066681
Subjects: Popular works; Executors and administrators
Description: "New and updated coverage includes: first steps following death; funeral, burial, and cremation; death and burial benefits; income, estate, and inheritance taxes; death without a will; probate administrations; settling a trust; protecting survivors"--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 249) and index.
Table of contents: title: When death occurs; title: Becoming an executor; title: Strategies before death; title: Wills, organ donations, and funerals; title: Sorting the assets and liabilities; title: Avoiding or minimizing probate; title: Initiating probate; title: Creditors' claims; title: Taxes; title: Managing, distributing, and closing the probate estate; title: When there is no will; title: Settling a trust; title: Protecting the survivors.