This book provides a through discussion of how to prepare your own living trust, including forms and instructions. As many people know, it is highly desirable to avoid probate of your property, which is what a living trust accomplishes. The book gives you detailed, precise explanations of how to prepare a living trust using a form from the book and how to transfer property into the trust.
Subjects covered include:
what a living trust is and how it works
probate and why you want to avoid it
choosing your beneficiaries
choosing the trustees and successor trustee of your trust
leaving property to minor children
a living trust as part of your estate plan
Tabla de materias
Making Your Own Living Trust
1. Overview of Living Trusts
2. Human Realities and Living Trusts
3. Common Questions About Living Trusts
4. What Type of Trust Do You Need?
5. Choosing What Property to Put in Your Living Trust
6. Trustees
7. Choosing Your Beneficiaries
8. Property Left to Minor Children or Young Adults
9. Preparing Your Living Trust Document
10. Transferring Property to Your Trust
11. Copying, Storing, and Registering Your Trust Document
12. Living With Your Living Trust
13. After a Grantor Dies
14. A Living Trust as Part of Your Estate Plan
15. Wills
16. If You Need Expert Help
G Glossary
Appendixes
A How to Use the Interactive Forms
B Forms
Index
Sobre el autor
Denis Clifford, is an estate-planning attorney in Berkeley, California. He graduated from Columbia Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review. He has practiced law in various ways, including representing poor people as a Legal Services Attorney and private practice. He learned that many people can do their own legal work if all that is involved is creating valid documents, rather than litigation. He is the author of many Nolo titles, including Plan Your Estate.
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