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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Frolik and Kaplan’s Elder Law in a Nutshell, (In a Nutshell (West Publishing))

Elder Law in a Nutshell, 4th ed. updates the previous edition to reflect the fast pace of legal change in this area of the law. Special attention is paid to major changes in Medicare, including the new Part D prescription drug program, means-testing of premiums, Medigap policies, and appeals procedures, as well as the 2006 amendments to Medicaid eligibility requirements that pertain to asset transfers, home equity limitations, and long-term care insurance incentives. The latest edition introduces the reader to the rapidly growing legal specialty of elder law. Addressing the myriad of legal issues encountered by the elderly, the book is a succinct overview of this complex intersection of law and social policy, including such areas as health care decision-making, pensions, Social Security, reverse mortgages, nursing homes, guardianship, long-term care, age discrimination in employment, and veterans benefits. The book is designed to assist anyone who has regular contract with older persons, including lawyers, law students, social workers, health care personnel, retirement planners and gerontologists or anyone who wishes a better insight into the world of elder law.

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