Estate Planning For Dummies

Estate Planning For Dummies
Author: Jordan S. Simon
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2023-03-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1394158564

Get your arms around wills, trusts, probate, inheritance taxes, and other important estate planning essentials Estate Planning For Dummies teaches you the ins and outs of estate planning. It’s all about drafting wills, dealing with probate, assigning powers of attorney, establishing living trusts, and beyond. Think you don’t have enough assets to merit estate planning? Think again. This everyone-friendly guide walks you through building a solid estate plan, whatever your current financial situation. In easy-to-understand language, you’ll learn the ins and outs of estate planning, including what happens to your stuff—cash, real estate, businesses, retirement funds, everything—when you pass away. This new edition is updated for the many recent changes in estate taxes and inheritance law. Make sure your assets get into the pockets of your heirs or wherever you want them to go, and learn how to accomplish it the For Dummies way. Understand state and federal estate and inheritance taxes Build an air-tight will and make sure your heirs get as much as they can Protect your estate’s privacy even after you’re gone Plan for the transition of a family business Prevent disagreements and uncertainty among your heirs Figure out how to pass on your digital assets This friendly guide is a must for people of any age in the process of drafting their wills and planning where their assets ultimately end up.

Succession and Tax Planning Through Trusts and Wills

Succession and Tax Planning Through Trusts and Wills
Author: R. N. Lakhotia
Publisher: Vision Books
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2014-12-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 8170949386

How to bequeath your wealth to your successors — and save taxes Trusts and Wills are two ways of legally distributing your wealth to your intended successors or other beneficiaries. Intelligently planned, these two methods can also help you save tax for yourself and your successors. While Wills are better known, tax and succession planning through private or family trusts is also a tried and tested way of transferring assets and creating income for your successors, including unborn persons. In fact, private trusts have several great advantages over a Will. While a Will is often challenged in the courts — and the resultant dispute can take years to be settled — a properly created trust can help you pre-empt any such family strife. Secondly, by creating the right trust you can pass on your wealth even during your lifetime. This book offers expert guidance on how to bequeath your wealth as you want, whether by means of trusts or through a valid Will, in a tax-efficient manner: ● The various types of private and family trusts you can set up. ● Principles and procedure for creating a valid private trust. ● Advantages and tax planning aspects of private trusts. ● The concept and advantages of a living trust. ● How to transfer wealth to your family members, including minor children, during your lifetime through a trust. ● How to draft, execute and register your Will. ● What you can bequeath through your Will — and what you can't. ● How to create a new HUF through a Will. ● Ready-to-use drafts of typical Wills.

The Estate Planning Guide

The Estate Planning Guide
Author: Martin M. Shenkman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 322
Release: 1991-10-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Written by a nationally recognized legal tax expert, it gives a clear picture of the basic standards set by the IRS on how an estate is taxed. The author offers sound, accessible advice on how taxpayers can keep as much of their assets as possible. Full of ideas for saving on estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes. Sample forms and practical ``how-to'' checklists provide additional assistance on estate planning. Covers such topics as powers of attorney, trusts, wills, gifts and more.