Many people discover too late that they need some essential legal documents to deal with common health and end of life issues. Failing to prepare these documents ahead of time can create major legal headaches that often require expensive trips to court to resolve. Written by expert attorneys, “5@55” is a slim, easy-to-read guide to the five …
Legal Estate Planning
A Better Way of Dying: How to Make the Best Choices at the End of Life
The fail-safe plan for ensuring one’s final wishes are respected Advanced directives and living wills have improved our ability to dictate end-of-life care, but even these cannot guarantee that we will be allowed the dignity of a natural death. Designed by two sisters-one a doctor, one a lawyer-and drawing on their decades of experience, the five-step …
This casebook presents a functional approach to Trusts and Estates. In addition to a focus on recent cases, the book uses questions and problems to focus student attention on issues that face estate planners, litigators and policy makers. In each chapter, it integrates discussion of drafting and planning issues with its treatment of doctrine and policy. In addition, …
This study guide includes multiple-choice questions, short-answer questions, and a practice final exam. Q&A: Federal Estate and Gift Taxation is designed to test your students knowledge of federal estate and gift taxation doctrine. Each multiple-choice question is accompanied by a detailed answer that indicates which of four options is the best answer and explains why that option …
This new Exam Pro contains sample tests that cover an entire wills, trusts and estates course, as well as mini exams in discrete topics such as intestacy and future interests, as well as take. The book covers the Uniform Probate Code and general common law principles. A detailed answer key explains why the correct answer is …
Wills, Trusts and Estates, Including Taxation and Future Interests, 4th
Provides an analysis of the laws of intestate succession, wills , trusts, future interests, and the construction of wills and trusts. The book relies heavily on the provisions of the Uniform Probate Code and the Uniform Trust Code and other Uniform laws relating to the transfer of wealth. The book also includes an overview of the federal transfer …
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Medicine – Biomedical Engineering, University Lübeck, course: Medizintechnik, language: English, abstract: Diseases of the kidney like glomerulonephritis, pyelonephritis and polycystic kidneys can constrain the function of the kidney, depending on the type of disease a kidney failure can occur. When kidneys stop working or when less than 15% of …
Splitting Heirs: Giving Your Money and Things to Your Children Without Ruining Their Lives
The financial wealth you leave behind could be the best thing that ever happened to your loved ones—or the worst.By approaching these important topics with clarity, conviction, and a little bit of humor, financial advisor Ron Blue explains why it is important to make these decisions now, instead of forcing your heirs to do …
Federal Income Taxation of Trusts and Estates: Cases, Problems, and Materials examines the income taxation of estates and trusts, estate and trust beneficiaries, and trust settlors; its emphasis is on the provisions of ‘Subchapter J’; the relevant portion of the Internal Revenue Code (sections 641 through 692) and its first priority is to give readers an understanding of …
The Family Foundation Handbook provides comprehensive coverage of the legal, tax, and business aspects of forming and operating a family foundation. From grantmaking to investment management, accounting procedures to tax filings, and funding the foundation to protecting it from liability, this handbook provides coverage of all the issues a family foundation faces.This valuable resource provides forms, …