Living Trusts for Everyone: Why a Will is Not the Way to Avoid Probate, Protect Heirs, and Settle Estates

The misconceptions surrounding the last will and testament need to be put to rest: Wills benefit lawyers. Trusts benefit you. Period. Too often lawyers sell wills to clients only to sit back and wait to sell their probate services to their client’ s heirs. Modern estate planning should utilize the Living Trust as the effective, efficient, and inexpensive alternative to a will. Living Trusts for Everyone: Why a Will is Not the Way to Avoid Probate, Protect Heirs, and Settle explains why wills are not the best way to handle an estate and details the many advantages trusts have over wills in not only eliminating probate, but protecting your assets for your heirs. Anyone with minor children, disabled beneficiaries, blended families, or spendthrift heirs must have a trust to be sure the assets left behind are put to good use, and that your intentions are carried out. Lawyers may have vested interests in perpetuating the probate system, but this book will explain why legal services are not needed to do the clerical work in settling a trust after death. No legal jargon or confusing double-speak, just specific step-by-step instructions and sample form letters to settle a trust are included to take the mystery out of the process. This is not a do-it-yourself book and it doesn’t try to cram every type of trust onto its pages. Living Trusts for Everyone explains in specific terms what benefit a trust will have for you and gives you the tools to settle a loved one’s trust with no lawyers and no expense. For those who already have a trust, there is a list of what to look for to see if your trust is any good, or if it needs to be updated. Trust seminars are examined with warnings on what to look out for in setting up your trust. Everyone who cares about what happens to their assets at death should read Living Trusts for Everyone: Why a Will is Not the Way to Avoid Probate, Protect Heirs, and Settle!

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New York Elder Law Handbook (March 2011 Edition)

Thousands of advocates for older, blind, and disabled New York State residents rely on PLI’s New York Elder Law for useful, authoritative guidance on the legal issues confronting their clients and on the ways these practitioners can work more effectively with various federal and state agencies to help their clients.

New York Elder Law taps experts in their respective fields to cover the latest legal issues and pertinent figures with regard to Social Security; Supplemental Security Income; Social Security and SSI Disability; Medicare; Supplemental Medical Insurance; Medicaid for the elderly, blind and disabled; home care; protective services; housing; nursing homes; health care decision-making; veteran’s benefits; and retirement plans.

New York Elder Law contains numerous checklists to save you time and help you stay up to speed with rapidly changing laws and numbers, including up-to-date eligibility and benefit levels, benefit checklists for older adults, and flow charts for step-by-step guidance through complex appeals processes.

Updated at least once a year, New York Elder Law is an essential handbook for attorneys, health care professionals, social workers, financial planners, and other advocates for older clients.

Founded in 1933, Practising Law Institute (Practicing Law Institute, PLI) is the nation’s foremost provider of continuing legal education. PLI is a leading publisher of authoritative legal references and other information resources and offers more than 300 live and electronic programs nationally.

About the Author

Sadin Institute on Law & Public Policy of the Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging and Longevity, Hunter College/City University of New York has been in operation since 1977 as a legal support system for advocates who serve the elderly. It is a past recipient of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorney’s President’s Recognition Award for lasting contributions in the field of elder law and in advocating for the elderly.

Thousands of advocates for older, blind, and disabled New York State residents rely on PLI’s New York Elder Law for useful, authoritative guidance on the legal issues confronting their clients and on the ways these practitioners can work more effectively with various federal and state agencies to help their clients.

New York Elder Law taps experts in their respective fields to cover the latest legal issues and pertinent figures with regard to Social Security; Supplemental Security Income; Social Security and SSI Disability; Medicare; Supplemental Medical Insurance; Medicaid for the elderly, blind and disabled; home care; protective services; housing; nursing homes; health care decision-making; veteran’s benefits; and retirement plans.

New York Elder Law contains numerous checklists to save you time and help you stay up to speed with rapidly changing laws and numbers, including up-to-date eligibility and benefit levels, benefit checklists for older adults, and flow charts for step-by-step guidance through complex appeals processes.

Updated at least once a year, New York Elder Law is an essential handbook for attorneys, health care professionals, social workers, financial planners, and other advocates for older clients.

Founded in 1933, Practising Law Institute (Practicing Law Institute, PLI) is the nation’s foremost provider of continuing legal education. PLI is a leading publisher of authoritative legal references and other information resources and offers more than 300 live and electronic programs nationally.

About the Author

Sadin Institute on Law & Public Policy of the Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging and Longevity, Hunter College/City University of New York has been in operation since 1977 as a legal support system for advocates who serve the elderly. It is a past recipient of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorney’s President’s Recognition Award for lasting contributions in the field of elder law and in advocating for the elderly.


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