From the Book - 16th edition.
Your estate planning goals
Personal concerns and estate planning
Special property ownership rules for married people
Inventorying your property
Probate and why you want to avoid it
Joint tenancy and tenancy by the entirety
Pay-on-death designations, registrations, and deeds
State law exemptions from normal probate
An overview of ongoing trusts
Other estate tax-saving marital trusts
Other estate tax-saving trusts
Disclaimers: after-death estate tax planning
Combining estate tax-saving trusts
Property control trusts for second or subsequent marriages
Trusts and other devices for imposing controls over property
Incapacity: making medical and financial decisions - Body and organ donation, funerals, and burials
Family business estate planning
After you complete your estate plan
From the Book - Fifteenth edition.
Probate and how to avoid it
Understanding estate and gift taxes
Reducing or eliminating estate taxes
Imposing controls over property
Taking care of personal issues