Provides expanded, detailed coverage of many new types of assets, outlining more than one hundred new trust forms designed to minimize or eliminate court involvement and legal consultations

A revised and updated edition of a nationwide best-seller offers practical tips on estate planning, featuring a new chapter on Medicaid and sharing vital information on how to save heirs the cost and delay of probate. Original. $50,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Explains an executor's duties, describes the needs and emotions of the bereaved, and discusses probate, life insurance, government benefits, bank accounts, real estate, debts, estate taxes, and charitable bequests

The leading text in the field takes a practical approach, illustrating legal principles through examples, exercises, legal forms, checklists, and actual drafts of wills and trusts. Students are exposed to detailed procedures and are prepared for everyday practical duties of the paralegal through comprehensive, authoritative coverage. Blend of theory and practice balances the need for understanding concepts and law and the need to be able to apply it. (view table of contents)

Thoroughly updated to reflect the latest tax regulations, an authoritative guide to settling an estate explains an executor's duties and discusses such topics as probate, life insurance, bank accounts, debts, estate taxes, legal complexities, asset distribution, and more. Original. (view table of contents)

A point-by-point comparison of wills and living trusts debunks the myth that wills continue to adequately accommodate Americans' estate-planning needs and offers advice on how to safely plan for the future. 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. First serial to Modern Maturity.

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Essentials version of the leading text that takes a practical approach, illustrating legal principles through examples, exercises, legal forms, checklists, and actual drafts of wills and trusts. Students are exposed to detailed procedures and are prepared for everyday practical duties of the paralegal through comprehensive, authoritative coverage. Blend of theory and practice balances the need for understanding concepts and law and the need to be able to apply it. Material from the main hardcover text has been eliminated that is not covered by all instructors, such as Chapters 12 (Formal Probate), 13 (Informal Probate), and 14 (Tax Considerations); the UPC Appendix; majority of the sample forms in the appendix related to Chapters 12 and 13.

The third edition of this text follows tradition with an easy-to-understand writing style that helps paralegal and legal assistant students comprehend a complex technical subject area. Undergraduate students who plan to work in the legal field, but who are not law students, will find this text to be very focused and to the point, yet broad in its coverage of topic areas related to wills, trusts and estates. All legal terms are clearly defined when first presented in the text. State-by-state information is presented clearly with the use of maps, tables and case studies. Charts and boxed cases help to make complex topics easier to understand. Each chapter begins with an outline, a list of outcomes, and job competencies. This is followed by a "day-at-the-office" scenario with questions about legal and ethical issues that arise. This gives the students a real world context in which to study the concepts of the chapter. Celebrity features, including photos, pique student interest while illustrating the subject at hand. At the end of each chapter, students find a summary, review questions, cases to discuss and chapter projects entitled "Sharpening Your Professional Skills" and Sharpening Your Legal Vocabulary". Instructors have applauded these unique features and appreciate the suggestions and guidelines for further research.

Product Description: Stow, J.W. Probate Confiscation: The Unjust Laws which Govern Women. Fourth edition revised and enlarged. [n.p.]: Printed and sold by the author, 1879. 301 pp. Reprint available 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2002044366. Hardcover...read more

Product Description: Nontraditional families are today an important part of American family life. Yet when a loved one dies, our inheritance laws are often stingy even towards survivors in the nuclear family. With humor, enthusiasm, and a bit of righteous outrage, Ralph C...read more

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Product Description: Administration of Wills, Trusts, and Estates, fourth edition, has proven to be a highly successful text for paralegal students, marrying dense content with a reader friendly style that utilizes extensive examples. The use of celebrity wills and estates as illustrations provides access for students into complicated legal topics...read more

Product Description: Surrogate Court dockets are filled with cases involving family members fighting over the assets and intentions of a deceased parent or spouse. Probate Wars of the Rich & Famous: An Insider’s Guide to Estate Planning and Probate Litigation tracks the estate litigation cases of Anna Nicole Smith, Brooke Astor, Michael Jackson, Nina Wang, Jerry Garcia and Leona Helmsley and identifies the five universal factors that caused such disputes...read more

Product Description: When a loved one dies, we want to know that their final wishes were carried out as they had hoped. Being entrusted to carry out these wishes is an enormous responsibility, and one you may not fully understand. The title of executor is given to those who have been named to administer a will and handle the specifics involved with settling an estate...read more