Protect and enhance your estate
Subtitle: definitive strategies for estate and wealth planning
By: by Robert Esperti, Renno Peterson
Contributors: Peterson, Renno L.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780071787895
Subjects: Estate planning
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Acknowledgments; title: What is estate planning?; title: Title; title: Jointly held property; title: Disability; title: No estate plan?; title: Wills; title: More on wills; title: Probate; title: The federal estate tax; title: The unified system; title: The gift tax; title: The marital deduction; title: Community property; title: State death taxes; title: Step-up in basis at death; title: Trusts; title: The revocable living trust; title: Funding a revocable living trust; title: Trustees; title: Giving property to minors; title: Planning for children; title: Per stirpes versus per capita; title: Generation skipping; title: Disinheriting a spouse; title: Planning for a spouse; title: Planning for unmarried couples; title: Life insurance; title: Life insurance: who should own it?; title: Life insurance; title: The irrevocable life insurance trust; title: Life insurance; title: The irrevocable life insurance trust; title: Some estate planning solutions; title: Freezing techniques; title: Discounting the value of your estate; title: Protecting your assets; title: Loans to family members; title: Sales to family members; title: Private annuities and self-cancelling installment notes; title: Personal residence trusts; title: Retirement planning; title: Special use valuation; title: Using assets of a corporation to pay death costs; title: Giving it to charity; title: An estate planning summary; title: Appendix A: Getting organized; title: Appendix B: Federal estate and gift tax tables; title: Appendix C: Spouses have rights too; title: Appendix D: Estate planning history; title: Index.