Plan your estate
By: Attorney Denis Clifford
Contributors: Nolo (Firm)
Edition: 12th edition.
Publisher: Nolo; NOLO
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Berkeley, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 510
ISBN-13: 9781413320183; 9781413320190
Subjects: Estate planning; Popular works; Living trusts; Inheritance and transfer tax; Law and legislation; LAW / Estates & Trusts
Other titles: Nolo plan your estate
Description: Presents a guide on estate planning that covers property ownership laws, beneficiaries, probate avoidance, living trusts, joint tenancy, health care directives, life insurance, estate taxes, wills, business ownership, and pensions.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting your goal. Selecting your estate planning goals ; Personal concerns and estate planning; title: Laying the groundwork. Special property ownership rules for married people ; Inventorying your property ; Your beneficiaries; title: Children; title: Wills; title: Probate and how to avoid it. Probate and why you want to avoid it ; Living trusts ; Joint tenancy and tenancy by the entirety ; Pay-on-death designations, registrations, and deeds ; Life insurance ; Retirement benefits ; State law exemptions from normal probate; title: Understanding estate and gift taxes. Estate taxes ; Gifts and gift taxes; title: Reducing or eliminating estate taxes. An overview of ongoing trusts ; AB disclaimer trusts ; Other estate tax-saving marital trusts ; Charitable trusts ; Other estate tax-saving trusts ; Disclaimers : after-death estate tax planning ; Combining estate tax-saving trusts; title: Imposing controls over property. Property control trusts for second or subsequent mortgages ; Trust and other devices for imposing controls over property; title: Taking care of personal issues. Incapacity : making medical and financial decisions ; Body and organ donation, funerals, and burials; title: Family business. Family business estate planning; title: Going further. Using lawyers ; After you complete your estate plan ; After a death occurs; title: Sample estate plans.