Author | Platt, Harvey J |
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Title | Your will & estate plan [electronic resource] : how to protect your estate and your loved ones / Harvey J. Platt |
Imprint | New York : Allworth Press, c2003 |
Connect to | http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=102381 |
Descript | vi, 233 p. : forms ; 23 cm |
Developing your estate plan -- The designation of your beneficiaries -- Your will -- Probate and how to avoid it -- If you die without a will -- The making of inter vivos gifts -- Reducing estate and gift taxes -- The generation-skipping transfer tax -- Post-mortem strategies for estate planning -- The uses of trusts in estate and gift planning -- Charitable giving -- If you have disadvantaged children -- Planning for single people and unmarried couples -- Unique planning strategies : discount planning -- Corporate owners' buy-sell agreements -- Government entitlements : medicaid and ssi planning -- Retirement plans : new required minimum distribution rules -- Planning for elder persons -- When death is imminent -- Planning for a married couple -- The effect of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 on estate and gift taxes