Rowley Public Library

Protect and enhance your estate, definitive strategies for estate and wealth planning, Robert A. Esperti, Renno L. Peterson, David K. Cahoone

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Protect and enhance your estate

748333160

Robert A. Esperti, Renno L. Peterson, David K. Cahoone

definitive strategies for estate and wealth planning

What is estate planning? -- Title -- Jointly held property -- Disability -- No estate plan? -- Wills -- More on wills -- Probate -- The federal estate tax -- The unified system -- The gift tax -- The marital deduction -- Community property -- State death taxes -- Step-up in basis at death -- Trusts -- The revocable living trust -- Funding a revocable living trust -- Trustees -- Giving property to minors -- Planning for children -- Per stirpes versus per capita -- Generation skipping -- Disinheriting a spouse -- Planning for a spouse -- Planning for unmarried couples -- Life insurance : estate planning fuel -- Life insurance : what kind of fuel do you need? -- Life insurance : how much fuel do you need? -- The irrevocable life insurance trust -- Some estate planning solutions -- Freezing techniques -- Discounting the value of your estate -- Protecting your assets -- Loans to family members -- Sales to family members -- Private annuities and self-cancelling installment notes -- Personal residence trusts -- Retirement planning -- Special use valuation -- Using assets of a corporation to pay death costs -- Giving it to charity -- An estate planning summary -- Appendix A. Getting organized -- Appendix B. Federal estate and gift tax tables -- Appendix C. Spouses have rights too -- Appendix D. Estate planning history