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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Protect Your Estate: Definitive Strategies for Estate and Wealth Planning from the Leading Experts
Estate planning is more important than ever, and it’s no longer just for the very rich.
Today’s “middle-class millionaires”created by the booming stock and real estate marketshave more assets than they ever believed possible. That unexpected wealth brings with it new concerns about how to protect their money and their heirs. A best-seller in its first edition, this book shows anyone how to implement estate planning into a long-range financial plan. It includes the latest on:
- Disability planning
- Living trusts; asset protection through long-term planning
- Family limited partnerships
Written by two noted tax attorneys who have revolutionized the estate-planning process with their techniques, Protect Your Estate, Second Edition, enables readers to understand the newest changes in the tax laws and turn them to their own advantage.
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Estate Planning Basics
Estate planning rules explained in one quick read!
Estate Planning Basics provides concise, straightforward, and easy-to-read explanations of the major components of estate planning, so that you don’t have to spend hours wading through endless options (most of which apply to the wealthy).
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Attorney Denis Clifford gives you the reliable, plain-English answers you need, whether you’re doling out the family heirlooms or trying to steer clear of estate taxes. The 5th edition has been fully updated to reflect your state’s latest estate planning laws and information. (20090102)
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60-Minute Estate Planner: Fast and Easy Plans for Saving Taxes, Avoiding Probate, and Maximizing Inheritance (Sixty Minute Estate Planner)
Now in a new edition and thoroughly updated, “60-Minute Estate Planner” simplifies the complicated process of estate planning. Readers will learn what information they need to gather before they begin, and how to communicate with heirs, manage tax considerations associated with estates, provide for the special needs of the old and young, and much more. In addition, the book contains tons of helpful tools such as sample forms and worksheets – everything readers need to ensure that their loved ones are taken care of after they’re gone.
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Estate Planning for People with a Chronic Condition or Disability
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Women and Money A Practical Guide to Estate Planning
Women control 75 percent of the total personal wealth in the United States today, fill more than half the jobs, earn more than half the college degrees, and make up the fastest growing sector of new business owners. Yet most American women have not taken steps to put the legal mechanisms in place through estate planning to protect their assets, their families and themselves. This book is for you. Women and Money, A Practical Guide to Estate Planning is an exhortation, a resource, and a trusted companion. Written by attorney Patricia Annino, who has been advising both men and women about estate planning for more than two decades, the book makes a complicated process easily accessible to readers by explaining away the legal jargon, bringing the issues to life with real life stories, and addressing the concerns of women in all age and economic groups. The first time a new mother leaves her baby with a sitter, she leaves detailed instructions. Estate planning is a way to leave instructions for a lifetime, a way to make sure that if anything ever happens to you, the person you want to take care of your children will do so, your directions will determine the care they will be given, and your finances will be great enough to cover all costs. This is a book for women with significant assets and women with concerns about their financial futures, women with elderly parents and women with special needs children, single, married, divorced, widowed, and remarrying women. In short, this is a book for you and for any woman who wants to control her own financial destiny, protect herself and protect those she cares about most.
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The Executor’s Guide: Settling a Loved One’s Estate or Trust
Settling an estate can be like moving through a maze — let The Executor’s Guide lead the way.
If you’re faced with wrapping up the affairs of a loved one who has died, you may feel overwhelmed by all the work ahead — especially when you’re grieving. But with the right legal and practical information, you can do it.
The Executor’s Guide will help you get organized and make progress one step at a time, by assisting you in navigating an unfamiliar land of legal procedures and terminology. It explains how to:
The 4th edition contains updated tables outlining key points of each state’s laws, the latest information on estate taxes and worksheets that help you stay organized and on track. (20080608)
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The 101 Biggest Estate Planning Mistakes
- ISBN13: 9780470375037
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A trust and estate lawyer to the stars offers an engaging look at how to avoid numerous estate planning mistakes
In The 101 Biggest Estate Planning Mistakes, author Herbert Nass, an estate planner for some of today’s most famous celebrities, offers an entertaining look at what not to do when setting up an estate plan, or administering an estate. By examining the mistakes made by some of the most well-known celebrities-from Bob Marley to John F. Kennedy, Sr. and Jr.-this book will guide readers toward making a successful estate plan and help them avoid many common pitfalls. Chapters cover such topics as: mistakes involving tangible personal property, real estate, executors and trustees, minors, or persons with disabilities; as well as disgruntled family and friends left behind.
- Puts estate planning in perspective through entertaining examples of mistakes celebrities have made in developing their own plans
- Taps into the voyeuristic interest we have in the lives of the rich and famous
- Offers an insider’s look at many fascinating wills of the rich and famous
Given the emotional, financial, and legal issues that arise from the death of a loved one-and the substantial assets that are transferred from one generation to the next at this time-understanding estate planning is essential. This book will put you in a better position to make more informed estate planning decisions.
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Kiplinger’s Estate Planning: The Complete Guide to Wills, Trusts, and Maximizing Your Legacy
If I don’t have an estate plan, what will happen when I die? Can I plan my own estate, or should I work with an estate attorney? How can I make sure that my estate isn’t whittled away by state and federal taxes?
In Kiplinger’s Estate Planning, financial expert and attorney John Ventura offers straightforward guidance on all of the tools of estate planning, from wills, trusts, and custodial accounts to insurance, employee befits, and durable power of attorney for finance and health care.
In this easy-to-read guide, learn: What you can and can’t do with a will; How a living trust works; Your options for transferring assets to your spouse or partner; How to give your assets away while you are alive; How to use a durable power of attorney for health care—and what will happen if you become incapacitated without one; Controlling your death with a living will; How to leave a personal legacy; How to complete the process on your own or work with an estate attorney
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