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Make Your Own Living Trust [With CDROM]

Death may be inevitable, but probate doesn't have to be. By creating a

living trust, your property will bypass lengthy and expensive probate

proceedings and go directly to the people you've designated, quickly and easily.

Make Your Own Living Trust

explains how to create a living trust, transfer

property to the trust and amend or revoke the trust at any time.

Specifically, it covers how to:

create various living trusts, including an AB trust

transfer assets to your trust, including real estate, stocks and bonds,

jewelry, art, or a small business

name beneficiaries for all trust property

sign your document and make it legal

appoint someone to manage property left to minors or young adults

management property trust for>retain absolute control over trust property

while you live

Make Your Own Living Trust

includes all the forms you need — as tear-outs

or on CD-ROM — to create your own trust, plus step-by-step instructions

for filling them out. Completely updated and revised, the 5th edition

covers new estate tax laws and how they affect estate planning. It also

discusses making a trust the beneficiary of retirement accounts and life

insurance, and provides more information on AB trusts.

Good in all states except Louisiana.

About the AuthorDenis Clifford, a graduate of Columbia Law School, where he was an editor

of The Law Review, is a lawyer who specializes in estate planning. He is

the author of many Nolo titles including Quick and Legal Will Book, Nolo's Simple Will Book and Make Your Own Living Trust and co-author of Plan Your Estate and A Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples. He has been interviewed by such major media as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Money Magazine.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 368
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781413309331
  • Genres
  • finance
  • Release date
  • 2009