Complete Guide to Planning Your Estate: A Step-by-Step Plan to Protect Your Assets, Limit Your Taxes, and Ensure Your Wishes Are Fulfilled

This book explains the complicated issues, terminology, and planning strategies of estate planning. Topics covered are wills, assets, and settlement costs, probate, guardianship, executors, life insurance, living trusts, living wills, durable power of attorney, catastrophic illness, potential long-term care needs, marital deductions, types of trusts, federal and state estate exemptions, charitable remainder trusts, power of attorney, avoiding tax on life insurance, gift tax issues, generation skipping transfer tax, and much more. Estate planning should be a positive experience. It involves reviewing your situation and planning for your future. Advance planning is a way to show your love and to reduce potential distress later.Baker, Sandy is the author of 'Complete Guide to Planning Your Estate: A Step-by-Step Plan to Protect Your Assets, Limit Your Taxes, and Ensure Your Wishes Are Fulfilled' with ISBN 9781601380494 and ISBN 1601380496.