The Living Trust : The Failproof Way to Pass along Your Estate to Your Heirs / Edition 3

by Henry W. Abts

Overview

If you are concerned about estate planning you may be surprised that, even with a will, the probate system can eat up as much as 10 percent of an inheritance and delay the process two years. In The Living Trust, noted living trust authority Henry Abts presents a simple, inexpensive legal alternative that eliminates the costs and delays of probate and ensures that your loved ones will receive their inheritance promptly and exactly as you intended. This new edition has been completely updated to reflect the federal tax codes and up-to-the-minute developments in the legal system.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071387095
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	10/28/2002
Edition description:	Subsequent
Pages:	432
Sales rank:	1,105,638
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.86(d)

About the Author

A nationally recognized authority on living trusts, Henry W. Abts III is chairman and founder of The Estate Plan, the nation's oldest and largest living trust production corporation, responsible for creating more than 60,000 living trusts.

Editorial Reviews

While not a new concept, the living trust as a form of estate planning is not well known to the general public. Abts joins a chorus of experts recommending this device, which largely replaces a will and avoids passing property through probate. This is a detailed and competent, if somewhat stolid, presentation. Readers may get bogged down in matters such as the tax consequences of holding joint property before they reach anything substantive on living trusts. Robert A. Esperti and Renno L. Peterson's Loving Trust ( LJ 6/15/88) is a better organized and a more engagingly written treatment of this topic. Nevertheless, Abts is somewhat more thorough, and his book can be recommended to libraries where interest is high.-- Jack Ray, Loyola/Notre Dame Lib., Baltimore

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