Beneficiary Guide for Everyone - by Ronald Farrington Sharp (Paperback)

About the Book

"Learn how to protect your rights, avoid delay or fraud, and ensure what is yours ends up in the right place"--

Book Synopsis

Learn how to protect your rights, avoid delay or fraud, and ensure what is yours ends up in the right place.

TThe primary reason people take the time to write a will or create a trust is not for their own sake. It is to be sure that the legal process for their beneficiaries is simple, quick, and fair. The goal is to reflect not just their wishes but also to be mindful of the expectations and needs of those left behind.

Beneficiary Guide for Everyone is a step-by-step handbook on how to make and execute these decisions to get the maximum benefit. The first part covers the perspective of the planner: choosing how to leave your assets to your chosen beneficiaries, while simplifying complicated legal options, definitions, and concepts. The next covers how beneficiaries should approach the process so that assets are distributed with minimum delays and complications.

Using clear language and avoiding legalese, author and lawyer Ronald Farrington Sharp simplifies complex topics. Chapters are supplemented with Q&A features to answer some common questions friends and clients have posed to him--and to which readers are likely to also need answers.

Review Quotes

"Ronald F. Sharp's new book, the fourth in the "For Everyone" series, expertly addresses the rights and remedies of estate beneficiaries, seamlessly integrating trusts, wills, probate avoidance, and trust settlement. . . . The book provides practical strategies to defuse family conflict and offers astute advice on structuring an estate before death to minimize stress and prevent family estrangement. Whether read selectively by topic or cover to cover, it is an invaluable guide."
--David Delekta, CHFC, CLU, Regional Manager, Eagle Financial Group

Praise for Living Trusts for Everyone

"Sharp makes a reasoned and strong case for the use of trusts as a complete alternative for wills. For roughly the cost of a lunch, Living Trusts for Everyone can . . . equip the average American with enough thoughtful questions to ensure that his or her lawyer is doing all that s/he can to protect that person's assets. For that alone, it belongs on your reading list."
--Logan Lo, New York Journal of Books

"If you want to know a good deal about estate planning and trusts but don't want a four-hundred-page boring book to read, I highly, highly recommend getting this one. It's short, to-the-point, and very informative."
--Free Money, Finance.com

"Ronald Sharp explains trusts in clear and easy-to-understand language, including one truth most lawyers don't want to admit: a trust is often better than a will and less costly!"
--Lonnie Mclane, Estate & Tax Consultants, LLC

About the Author

Ronald Farrington Sharp, Esquire, has practiced family and estate law since 1975 after attending the University of Michigan and Wayne State University Law Schools. He has personally prepared over three thousand trusts and is the author of Settling Estates for Everyone, How to Avoid Probate for Everyone, Living Trusts for Everyone, and Winning the Divorce War (all from Allworth Press), as well as No Regrets, No Remorse (Poisoned Pen Press). An award-winning mystery writer and sculptor, Sharp is married to the artist Susannah Keith and has three children and three terrific granddaughters. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.