Your Washington Wills, Trusts, & Estates Explained Simply: Important Information You Need to Know for Washington Residents (Your… Wills, Trusts, & Estates)
Few people want to think about what would happen to their family if they become disabled or die; however, planning for these occurrences in advance will reduce potential stress on your family later in life. This new book will take the guesswork out of planning your estate and help you finally understand the complex processes. The right plan can protect the value of your estate and spare your loved ones unnecessary hassles and legal conflicts. Your Washington Wills, Trusts, & Estates will help you glide through this complicated process. This new book has been adapted to offer Washington residents state-specific advice for estate planning. Author Linda C. Ashar, Attorney at Law, has crafted an estate planning primer, allowing Washington residents to become more informed and more involved during the process. Your Washington Wills, Trusts, & Estates will provide all the information you need to choose, set up, and execute a will, trust, or estate. You will learn the legal terminology, including beneficiary, probate, trustor, trustee, assets, guardianship, and executor. You will also learn about trust agreements, trust property, settlement costs, life insurance, durable power of attorney, marital deductions, gift splitting, survivorship deeds, gift tax issues, generation skipping transfer tax, tax deferred accounts, and advance directives. Washington -specific information is offered throughout this book, including: Washington probate code; Washington rules, regulations, and laws specific to estate planning; elements of a valid Washington will; planning your living will in Washington; explanations of Washington laws regarding durable health care power of attorneys, do not resuscitate (DNR) orders, and directives to withhold CPR. The book s easy-to-understand context clarifies this complicated and sensitive subject and gives readers the power to take control of their future. Whether you are writing your will, establishing a trust, planning your estate for the first time, or updating and revising your previous plans, Your Washington Wills, Trusts, & Estates will give you all the tools and knowledge you need to decide where and to whom your assets will go when you die. Other books offer a non-state-specific overview of estate planning, causing many readers to be misinformed about rules and regulations particular to their state; but, this new book provides information Washington residents need to know. Do not get outdated or wrong information that does not pertain to you specifically. Use this new book to craft an estate plan that is not only legally sound but also fully carries out your last wishes and protects your loved ones.
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Quicken Willmaker Plus 2009 Edition: Estate Planning Essentials (Book with Software)
- Living Trusts, including an AB Trust
- Health Care Directive: Living Will
- Health Care Power of Attorney
- Financial Powers of Attorney
- Final arrangements document
Nearly 60 percent of Americans lack a legal will – and Quicken WillMaker: Estate Planning Essentials is the simple estate-planning solution they need! Step by step, it provides readers with a straightforward path through the complexities of ensuring their families’ futures. Best of all, your readers will not only understand wills, living trusts and financial powers of attorney – they’ll also create them, quickly and easily. The interactive CD-ROM helps them to make their own: legal wills; living trusts; living wills; health care powers of attorney; financial powers of attorney; final arrangements documents and forms for executors. Plus, Quicken WillMaker provides other financial and legal documents that help protect their families and property, such as authorizations, agreements and promissory notes – over 50 forms in all. What’s new? The 5th edition is completely updated to provide the latest state and federal laws, and all documents are revised to reflect each state’s specifications. In addition, Quicken WillMaker now makes it much easier to arrange for pet care – and much more. Many companies publish books about estate planning, but Nolo is the only publisher to provide a complete solution to your readers’ needs! Good in every state except Louisiana.
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The Special Needs Planning Guide: How to Prepare for Every Stage in Your Child’s Life
This book is a general guide for helping families plan for two generations (i.e., the financial planning needs of the primary caregiver and the person with disabilities). For some readers, it will relieve their anxieties about planning, and for others it will raise their awareness about the need to plan. Since every family’s specific situation is unique, the book is not intended to provide a specific formula for success. However, it bridges the gap between the ultimate vision a family has for their child and the financial realities of making these dreams come true. The structure of the book follows a chronological guideline of the critical transition periods that families face. The book also focuses on identifying and protecting government benefits as well as strategies to supplement government benefits. In addition to the basics of financial planning, the book includes family case studies; sample intent letters, checklists, forms, and other planning tools; a glossary of terms; and resources.
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Medicaid and Long Term Care in Michigan: Getting Good Care Without Going Broke
Medicaid and Long-Term Care in Michigan is an information and resource guide to the long-term care options available in Michigan, that addresses how to pay for that care without going broke. This invaluable book reveals state of the art techniques to qualify for Medicaid – the government program that pays for long-term nursing home care – while preserving one’s nest egg. Detailed text including case studies shows you how to keep what you’ve worked for your whole life in the event you or a loved one needs long-term care. Each chapter contains numerous websites and resources to help the reader obtain the best care available without losing everything.
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Estate Planning for Blended Families: Providing for Your Spouse & Children in a Second Marriage
In almost half of all stepfamilies, each parent brings one or more children to a new marriage and while other books give general information about wills, trusts, and taxes, many of them may not apply to couples in second marriages.
Estate Planning for Blended Families is the first book for parents in second marriages who want to provide both for their current spouse and their children from the current and prior marriages. Author Richard Barnes has years of experience guiding couples through the process of setting goals, discussing competing priorities, and choosing strategies and this book covers:
Estate Planning for Blended Families will also provide sample estate plans as well as the latest information regarding federal and state laws. (20090502)
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2011 Field Guide to Estate Planning, Business Planning, & Employee Benefits
The Book for Agents and Planners who want to serve their clients. Step-by-step solutions to your planning challenges.
The 2011 Edition of Field Guide to Estate Planning, Business Planning, & Employee Benefits is the sales-strategy tool that no agent, producer, manager, or financial planner should go without.
It offers step-by-step solutions to hundreds of planning needs and challenges.
Field Guide to Estate Planning, Business Planning, & Employee Benefits is the definitive guide for agents and financial planners to identify, understand, and employ the concepts and techniques used in estate, business, and employee benefit planning. Plus, Field Guide is completely cross-referenced to Tax Facts on Insurance & Employee Benefits, so you will always know the all of the relevant tax implications of your recommendations.
Discover targeted planning opportunities and illustrated strategies for:
Estate Planning
Life Insurance
Business Valuation
Cross-Purchase Agreement
Split-dollar insurance
And more!
Field Guide to Estate Planning offers detailed information on literally hundreds of estate and business planning concepts that today’s financial professional will encounter. Each technique described covers the following:
Detailed explanation of what the concept is
Charts, tables, and graphs illustrating how the concept works
Client question prompts to gather information required for analysis and proposal
Cross references to specific related questions in Tax Facts on Insurance & Employee Benefits
Footnotes providing further details and where to find more in-depth information on the topic
Authored by Donald F. Cady, J.D., LL.M., CLU, Field Guide to Estate Planning, Business Planning, & Employee Benefits reflects his expertise and ease in communicating planning concepts and techniques to financial professionals of all levels.
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ERISA and Employee Benefit Law: The Essentials
This book offers the most up-to-date, expert information on the full spectrum of pension and benefit topics — from an easy-to-understand explanation of ERISA and other laws regulating employee benefits plans to detailed descriptions and definitions of private retirement and welfare plans as well as public programs, such as Social Security and Medicare.
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New Times, New Challenges: Law and Advice for Savvy Seniors and Their Families
If your parents are growing older, if you are growing older (or at least you hope to), you will face new times and new challenges. This book will help. A law professor and a leading elder law lawyer team up to offer legal and practical advice on retirement issues (finances, housing, health care), walk you through various estate planning options (living trusts, wills, advance directives), and help your family in truly sad times, disability and death in the family. They also help you avoid, and, if that’s too late, deal with bad folks: caretakers who abuse elders, obnoxious bill collectors, scam artists, identity thieves, and those discriminate on the basis of age or disability. Alas, there are even legal problems associated with grandparenting and remarriage (the triumph of hope over experience).
As to driving and sex, while there is both good and bad news, one message stands out: never at the same time.
The topics may be sobering, but the style is not. It’s a good read, often funny and even, on occasion, profound. Charles Sabatino, the director of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Law and Aging, writes that the book is ”an encyclopedic legal reference with the down-home philosophy and wit of Will Rogers, wryly enriched by poetry, humor, and existential musings.” Doctor Andrew Weil finds the book ”entertaining and uplifting with very practical and sensible suggestions.” He will use it himself and will recommend it to patients, friends, and loved ones.
Whether you buy this book or not, the time is now to face the new challenges that are hurrying near. How? Sit down for an hour and write a letter to your family, covering such things as end-of-life care, living arrangements in the case of disability, and who gets the grandfather clock. (There is a suggested model in the book.) Discuss your letter with loved ones. You will save you and your family, money, confusion, and heartbreak. Challenges, unaddressed, fester.
Professor Hegland has spent his career teaching law, mostly at Arizona but also UCLA and Harvard. He has degrees from Stanford, UC Berkeley, and Harvard. Author of several legal books, he is known for his wit and clarity. Robert Fleming has spent his career practicing elder law. He lectures nationally and authors a legal treatise used by many of the nation’s elder law lawyers.
They know their stuff. And now you can too.
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How to Protect Your Family’s Assets from Devastating Nursing Home Costs: Medicaid Secrets (5th edition)
Written by an elder law attorney with over 25 years of experience, this book will help anyone with a family member faced with a long-term stay in a nursing home who wishes to preserve at least some of their assets by qualifying for the Medicaid program. You don’t have to be broke to qualify! For the first time ever, the inside secrets of high-priced estate planning and elder law attorneys are revealed. Includes a summary of all income and asset rules for both married and single individuals, together with numerous examples and several case studies, which take the reader through the same thought processes that an experienced elder law attorney would go through when analyzing a real-life client’s situation. The book includes tips on: how to title your home so you do not lose it to the state; how to make transfers to family members that won’t disqualify you from Medicaid; how annuities make assets “disappear”; smart tricks for “spending down” your assets; what to change in your will to save thousands of dollars if your spouse ever needs nursing home care; avoiding the state’s reimbursement claim following the nursing home resident’s death; and much more. The 2011 Fifth Edition has been expanded, revised, and completely updated to incorporate all changes in the law as of January 1, 2011, and includes two chapters on Veterans’ benefits.
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Estate Planning Smarts: A Practical, User-Friendly, Action-Oriented Guide, 2nd Edition
This best-selling book for baby boomers and their parents is essential reading, whether you are tackling the subject for the first time or revising your plan to reflect changes in the law, your finances or your personal life.
The expanded 2nd edition, available here, replaces the 1st edition, published in 2009. It covers the important 2010 tax changes that affect everyone and explains how to:
Appoint someone to handle your finances in case you are not able to some day because of illness or disability
Protect your spouse or partner
Provide for young or disabled children, and grandchildren, too
Hand down a family business
Build a charitable legacy
Shield assets from creditors
Transfer non-probate assets, such as joint accounts, retirement plans and co-owned real estate
Avoid family conflicts
A lawyer, award-winning journalist and dynamic speaker, Deborah L. Jacobs is a frequent contributor to The New York Times and Forbes. She has also been interviewed as an expert by reporters from many different media outlets, including The New York Times, Bloomberg News, Smart Money, Reuters, U.S. News & World Report, MarketWatch and CBS TV.
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