About this item
Highlights
- Want to save your family money and hassle?
- Author(s): Mary Randolph
- 288 Pages
- Freedom + Security / Law Enforcement, Estates & Trusts
Description
About the Book
8 Ways to Avoid Probate helps avoid needless probate delays and costs, allowing for a smooth property transfer to heirs without lawyers and estate planners.
Book Synopsis
Want to save your family money and hassle? Read this book!
If you want to save your heirs time and money, this book is for you. Probate court proceedings can drag out and cost tens of thousands of dollars in attorney and court fees--money that would otherwise have gone directly to your loved ones. 8 Ways to Avoid Probate offers easy ways to spare your family the hassles of probate court while explaining the latest state and federal laws impacting probate avoidance methods in easy-to-understand language.
You'll learn about the benefits of using living trusts, creating transfer-on-death deeds, setting up pay-on-death designations for bank accounts, retirement funds, securities, vehicles, and more. After implementing these strategies, you'll have peace of mind knowing you've maximized the property for your heirs while minimizing conflict, fees, and wasted time.
Review Quotes
"...complete details for each state"... Los Angeles Times "...provides readers with solid advice on easy methods that can skip the probate process, from naming payable-on-death beneficiaries for financial accounts and owning property jointly to creating living trusts and more. It's been completely updated to include the latest estate laws and gift tax rules, and offers a focus on the transfer-on-death deeds which are now available in more states..." Midwest Book Review
"Randolph takes the position that the probate process is an unnecessary expenditure of time and money." Library Journal