Plan Your Estate, 9th Edition

The most comprehensive — yet easy to read — guide to estate planning on the market!

Plan Your Estate covers everything from the basics of wills and living trusts to sophisticated tax-saving strategies. The authors give you straightforward, plain-English explanations of every significant estate-planning option available, so you can make the best decisions for you and those you love.

The book covers:

  • wills
  • probate and how to avoid it
  • living trusts
  • property-control trusts
  • naming guardians for children
  • leaving property to children
  • estate taxes and how to reduce them
  • living wills (health care directives)
  • financial powers of attorney
  • final arrangements
  • strategies for business owners
  • and much more

    The 9th edition is completely updated with the latest federal and state laws, and now covers ethical wills — a new way to pass on values, beliefs and important personal experiences. Good for all states except Louisiana. (20080201)

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  • Managed Medicare & Medicaid Factbook: 2011

    Managed Medicare and Medicaid Factbook: 2011 provides convenient access to up-to-date enrollment data so you can easily evaluate market share, make plan-by-plan or state-by-state comparisons, identify opportunities and develop strategies. It includes current statistics on:
    *MA, Medicare managed care, Medicare Part D and managed Medicaid enrollment
    *Medicare eligibles by state, market penetration by state and by region
    *Enrollees by type of product including Part D, Special Needs Plans, HMO, local PPO, regional PPO, PFFS and others
    *Directories of MA, Medicaid plans and Part D plans with contact information
    *MA and Medicaid plans financial trends

    The completely updated Managed Medicare and Medicaid Factbook: 2011 also includes new coverage of these hot topics:
    *Costs, premiums, rate cuts and profitability;
    *Star ratings, quality bonuses and ACO alliances;
    *State initiatives in Medicaid; and
    *Marketing regulations and bid strategies, along with other challenges such as meaningful differences, rate cuts, RADV audits, RACs and data reporting requirements.

    You can have all of this information at your fingertips no need to contact 50 different Medicaid agencies, scour through the convoluted CMS website, or cut and paste to get data into a format that lets you compare apples to apples. Our experts have compiled the most relevant and timely facts for you and presented them in a way that provides one, easy-to-access resource of the managed Medicare and Medicaid data you need to develop sound strategies for 2012 and beyond.

    Table of Contents
    Ch 1: MA Market Developments
    *MA Market Expansions
    *Mergers and Acquisitions
    *Private-Fee-for-Service Plans
    *Special Needs Plans
    *Alliances With ACOs
    Ch 2: Strategies and Challenges for Marketing MA and Part D Plans
    *2011 Enrollment Season
    *Regulation and Enforcement of Marketing Rules
    *Product Development and Benefit Design
    *Marketing Alliances
    Ch 3: Bid Submissions, Evaluations and Denials
    *Meaningful Differences Among Products
    *Bid Strategies, Challenges and Results
    *Bid Denials and Violations
    Ch 4: Medicare and Medicaid Plans Financial Performance
    *MA Financial Trends
    *MA Financial Results
    *Medicaid Plans Financial Results
    *Stock Performance
    *Leadership Changes at Medicare and Medicaid Plans
    Ch 5: Costs and Premiums for MA and Part D
    *Payment Rate Cuts
    *Rising Premiums
    *Cost Savings
    Ch 6: MA Plan Audits
    *Data Validation
    *RADV
    Ch 7: New MA Data Reporting Requirements
    *Regulatory Burdens
    *RACs
    *Encounter Data Reporting
    Ch 8: MA Star Ratings and Other Quality Initiatives
    *Criteria and Measures for Quality Ratings
    *Quality Bonuses
    *Flagging Poor Performers
    *NCQA Rankings
    Ch 9: Medicare Managed Care Enrollment Trends and Market Share Data
    Ch 10: Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Data
    *Enrollment Data
    *Federal Retiree Drug Subsidy
    *Low-Income Subsidy
    *Directory of PDPs Sorted by Parent Organization
    Ch 11: Regional Managed Medicare Marketplace Data
    Ch 12: MA Plan Directory
    *MA, Cost, PACE and Demonstration Plans
    Ch 13: Dir. of Federal and Regional Medicare Regulators
    Ch 14: Managed Medicaid Business Strategies and Developments
    *Medicaid Plans Expansion
    *Contract Decisions
    *Mergers and Acquisitions
    *Payment Rate Changes
    *Legal Conflicts
    Ch 15: Managed Medicaid Developments in States
    *State Initiatives
    *States With Implemented Medicaid 1115 Waiver Programs
    Ch 16: Managed Medicaid Enrollment and Market Share Data
    *Managed Medicaid Enrollment Data
    *Managed Medicaid Market Share Data
    Ch 17: Dir. of Medicaid Plans
    Ch 18: Directories of State Medicaid Regulators

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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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    Plan Your Estate

    The most comprehensive — yet easy to read — guide to estate planning on the market! Learn how to create an estate plan and protect your family

    Plan Your Estate covers everything from the basics of wills and living trusts to sophisticated tax-saving strategies. The authors give you straightforward, plain-English explanations of every significant estate-planning option available, so you can make the best decisions for you and those you love.

    The book covers:

  • avoid probate
  • leave property through a will or trust
  • use life insurance to provide for your loved ones
  • name a guardian for your minor child
  • leave property to a young person
  • plan for incapacity
  • implement strategies specific to business owners
  • reduce estate taxes
  • make final arrangements

    The 10th edition is completely revised with the latest federal and state laws, plus updated estate and gift tax information, and enhanced discussions about 529 plans, same-sex marriage, tax-saving trusts, and retirement benefits. (20080201)Planning your estate is one of the most complicated endeavors you’ll ever undertake, yet its results are also the most far-reaching; after all, it will continue to affect those you care about long after you no longer can. So it’s worth understanding all the options and ramifications, being personally involved, and doing it right. This Nolo Press guide to estate planning is an excellent source of information on the many various details and considerations that you need to take into account–such as children and probate, estate and gift taxes, second marriages, and a wide variety of trust options (charitable, generation-skipping, spendthrift, living, and educational, for starters). It delves into the factors that affect married people versus single, the laws regarding children, types of beneficiaries and wills, plus joint tenancy, life insurance, retirement benefits, taxes, and organ donation. Showing a number of sample estate plans, explaining what hiring a lawyer can do for you (and how to choose a good one), how to do your own research, and including a glossary of estate-planning terms, Clifford and Jordan give you the tools to decide for yourself how you want your estate disposed of–and to make sure that’s what your legal documents reflect. –Stephanie Gold

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