Beyond the Grave, Revised and Updated Edition电子书

Praise for Beyond the Grave

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Preface, or Even If You Usually Skip Prefaces, Make Sure You Read This One

Part I

1: The Journey from Innocence to Cynicism

2: Why an Inheritance Plan?

3: If You Do Nothing, the Law Will Do It for You

Part II

4: The Unequal Inheritance

5: The Power Struggle

6: Don’t Die with Your Children Owing You Money

Part III

7: Protecting the Inheritance While It’s in the Hands of Your Child

8: Protecting the Money for the Financially Immature Child

9: Protecting the Inheritance from Your Child’s Spouse

10: Protecting the Inheritance for the Disabled Child

11: Protecting the Inheritance from Your Child’s Creditors

Part IV

12: Cutting Out a Child from Your Will or Trust

13: How Much Inheritance Is Too Much Inheritance?

14: Are Your Children Spending Their Inheritance—and You’re Not Dead Yet?

15: How to Control Your Child’s Life from the Grave

Part V

16: Who Should Be Your Child’s Trustee?

17: Your Underage Child’s Guardian

Part VI

18: How to Leave Your Valuables and Household Contents to Your Children

19: Planning for the Succession of the Family Business

20: The Family Residence

21: Dividing Your Real Estate Investments

Part VII

22: The Three Issues You Must Address to Protect Your Surviving Spouse

23: Protecting the Surviving Parent from “Grasping Children”

24: Who Controls the Money and Property for the Incapacitated or Incompetent Surviving Spouse?

25: Does Your Wife Want to Manage the Family Money?

Part VIII

26: You May Leave Everything to Your Spouse—but Will Your Spouse Leave Everything to Your Children?

27: The Potential Battle Between Children of Your First Marriage and Your Second Wife

28: If You Are on Your Second Marriage, Who Will Get Your Half If You Die First—Your Children or the Children of Your Second Spouse?

Part IX

29: Grandparents to the Rescue!

30: Including Your Grandchildren in Your Inheritance Plan

Part X

31: How You Can Die “Knowing” Your Pet Will Live Comfortably for the Rest of His Life

32: Leaving Your Money and Property to a Charity

Part XI

33: The Permanent Repeal of the Death Tax

34: “How Does the IRS Know How Much I’m Worth When I Die?”

35: Pay the Death Tax or Fight Back—Which One Sounds Like You?

36: How to Leave More to Your Children and Less to the IRS

37: I Can Get Your Death Tax Wholesale

38: Your Money Is Taxed a Second Time When Your Child Dies

Part XII

39: Using the Living Trust to Keep Your Children and Property Out of the Probate Court

40: How Your Inheritance Instructions May Be Disregarded

41: Don’t Put Your House in Joint Tenancy with Your Child

Part XIII

42: Can You Leave Your Child an Inheritance Without Disqualifying Him from SSI?

Part XIV

43: The Most Pressing Concerns Your Children Have About Your Will or Living Trust

44: Cautionary Tales from the Inheritance Arena

Final Thought: “Should I Tell My Children about My Inheritance Plan?”

Index

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