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Quick & Legal Will Book

by Attorney Denis Clifford

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Summary

Make your own legal will, quickly & easily!

If you want to create a will with the least amount of time and trouble, Quick & Legal Will Book is for you. It provides forms and step-by-step instructions to make a basic will that meets your needs. Find out how to:

• name beneficiaries
• choose a guardian
• set up a trust for minors
• name an executor 
• finalize your will
• change or revoke a will
• and more

The book provides all the forms you need as tear-outs and on CD-ROM, including an all-purpose will, and customized wills for a:

• single person with no children
• single person with children   
• married person with children 
• married person with no children

The completely updated 4th edition provides the latest laws of your state and new information about the inheritance rights of same-sex couples.

Press Reviews

"The most streamlined, yet thorough information available on how to write a valid will quickly and safely -- without a lawyer." Long Beach Press-Telegram

"An excellent book for lay people." Business Week

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: How This Book Works

A. Who Can Use a Basic Will?
B. About Probate and Taxes
C. Can You Safely Use This Book?
D. Real Life
E. Considerations for Parents of Minor Children
F. Legal Overview
G. How to Proceed

Chapter 2: Your Beneficiaries

A. Categories of Beneficiaries
B. Shared Gifts
C. Survivorship Period
D. Simultaneous Death
E. Imposing Limits On Your Gifts
F. Disinheritance
G. If You Want to Explain Your Decisions

Chapter 3: Property Ownership

A. Basic Rules for Giving Away Property
B. Taking Stock of Your Property
C. The Beneficiary Worksheet
D. Types of Property Ownership
E. Marital Property

Chapter 4: Children

A. Naming a Personal Guardian
B. Managing Minors' Property
C. Other Concerns About Children

Chapter 5: Your Executor

A. Choosing Your Executor
B. No Bond Required

Chapter 6: Estate Planning

A. What Is Probate?
B. Avoiding Probate
C. Reducing Federal Estate Taxes
D. State Estate Taxes
E. Second Marriages
F. Other Property Control Matters
G. Incapacity

Chapter 7: Preparing the Draft of Your Will

A. Determine Your Family Situation
B. How to Proceed If You Have Children (or Plan to Leave Property to Young People)
C. How to Proceed If You're Not a Parent and Aren't Leaving Property of Significant Value to Young People
D. Instructions for a Married Person Using Form 1
E. Instructions for Parents (or People Leaving Property to Children) Using Form 3 or 5
F. Instructions for People Who Don't Have Children

Chapter 8: Preparing Your Final Will

A. Getting Your Draft Ready
B. Type Your Will
C. Signing and Witnessing Your Will
D. Self-Proving Affidavits
E. Sample Completed Will, Including Self-Proving Affidavit
F. Letters of Explanation

Chapter 9: Storing and Copying Your Will

A. Storing Your Will
B. Making Copies of Your Will

Chapter 10: Changing or Revoking Your Will

A. When to Make a New Will
B. Making Simple Changes in Your Will by Codicil
C. Revoking Your Will

Chapter 11: Going Further

A. Other Will-Writing Options
B. For General Information On Estate Planning
C. Probate-Avoiding Living Trusts
D. Creating an "AB" or Marital Life Estate Trust for Estate Tax Savings
E. Creating Documents for Health Care
F. Creating a Durable Power of Attorney for Finances
G. Enjoying Retirement
H. Using Lawyers

Appendix 1: How to Use the CD-ROM

Appendix 2: Forms

A. Will Forms

1. Married With Child(Ren), Property to Spouse
2. Married With No Children
3. Single, Divorced or Widowed With Child(ren)
4. Single, Divorced or Widowed With No Children
5. All-Purpose Will

B. Beneficiary Worksheet
C. Additional Specific Gifts
D. Self-Proving Affidavits

1. Affidavit 1
2. Affidavit 2
3. Affidavit 3

E. Will Codicil Form

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