Family Realities: Helping Aging Parents, Closing the Family Home, Dividing Family Possessions, Putting Affairs in Order

Focusing on both the emotional and practical issues surrounding death and inheritance, this book offers guidelines for achieving harmonious family relationships during this inevitable life passage. It offers advice on closing the family home, dividing up furniture and personal effects, settling the estate and transporting items to their new destination. Ways parents can help by planning ahead and sample forms such as obituary and burial permit information, a bequest list and a genealogy form help to simplify the process.