Nolo's Guide to Estate Planning - by Hanks Liza (Paperback)

About the Book

Nolo's Guide to Estate Planning is the successor to our steadily popular Plan Your Estate. Like its predecessor, the new title gives legal and, above all, practical information to anyone thinking of writing a will, making a trust, choosing guardians for children, implementing probate-avoidance techniques--in short, what every adult needs to do to make sure their wishes will be carried out. The new title is concise, loaded with examples, and eminently accessible.

Book Synopsis

Protect your family with solid estate planning

Estate planning sounds difficult--but most people just need a few basic documents. Let Nolo's Guide to Estate Planning show you how to protect your loved ones from legal hassles and financial uncertainty after your death. Learn about:

• wills and living trusts


• avoiding probate


• bypass (AB) trusts


• leaving property to children and naming guardians


• estate, gift, and inheritance taxes


• strategies for business owners


• health care directives, and


• financial powers of attorney.

Nolo's Guide to Estate Planning replaces Nolo's long-standing bestseller Plan Your Estate and is completely updated and refreshed for today's reader.

Applies in all U.S. states except Louisiana.

Review Quotes

Estate planning sounds difficult -- but most people just need a few basic documents. With the publication of the "Nolo's Guide to Estate Planning", estate planning expert Liza Hanks shows the non-specialist general readers just how to protect their loved ones from legal hassles and financial uncertainty with respect to an inheritance left to them.

Applies in all U.S. states except Louisiana, this paperback edition of estate attorney Liza Hanks "Nolo's Guide to Estate Planning" is fully updated, comprehensive, and thoroughly 'user friendly' in organization and presentation. If your aim is to establish and pass on 'Generational Wealth' to your children and grandchildren, then "Nolo's Guide to Estate Planning" is the ideal instructional guide and 'how to' manual. While also readily available in a digital book format "Nolo's Guide to Estate Planning" is especially and unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, senior center, and college/university library Money/Finance Management collections and Estate Planning reading lists. The Money/Finance Shelf, James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief
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