Estate Planning Basics

This book provides concise, straightforward, and easy to read information about the major components of estate planning – without going into endless detail about arcane options that apply only to the wealthy. Topics include:

choosing beneficiaries

estate planning by parents with minor children

wills

living trusts

avoiding probate

trusts for people in second marriage

planning for incapacity

Best-selling Nolo author Denis Clifford uses plain-English to make these estate planning issues easy to understand, and he lets you know which tasks you can handle yourself, and when you’ll need a lawyer’s help.