Denis Clifford 
Make Your Own Living Trust [EPUB ebook] 

Make Your Own Living Trust can help you make an individual or shared living trust that’s valid in your state, saving your family time, money, and headaches.
You can use a living trust to name beneficiaries for property and set up property management for young people. In this way, a living trust is like a will. However, unlike a will, a living trust lets your family bypass probate court— which saves everyone money, delay, and hassle.
Make Your Own Living Trust provides all of the plain English instructions, worksheets, and forms you need to create an individual or shared living trust and a basic will (for yourself and your family), without the need for a lawyer.
Whether you are single or part of a couple, you can use this book to:

• decide whether a living trust is right for your family


• keep control over trust property while you live


• appoint someone to manage trust property, if needed


• name beneficiaries to inherit your assets


• set up property management for young beneficiaries, and


• learn how to transfer all types of assets to your trust, including real estate, stocks, jewelry, art, or business assets.

Even if you prefer to hire a lawyer to draw up your trust, you can use this book to learn about living trusts before you go to the lawyer. Using the book to learn about living trusts will save you a considerable amount of money, compared to paying a lawyer to explain it to you.
All of the explanations, instructions, and examples are in the book, and the forms are available for download details inside the book.
The legal forms in this book are not valid in Louisiana, Canada, or the U.S. Territories.

Cuprins

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

Despre 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.