Make Your Own Living Trust

Denis Clifford

NOLO, Feb 12, 2015 - Law - 352 pages

Living trusts simplified! Protect your family and avoid probate with this bestselling guide

Death may be inevitable, but probate doesn't have to be. By creating a living trust, your property will bypass lengthy and expensive probate proceedings and go directly to the people you've designated, quickly and easily.

Make Your Own Living Trust explains how to create a living trust, transfer property to the trust, and amend or revoke the trust at any time. Use this book to:

• decide whether a living trust is right for your family
• create a probate-avoiding trust or an estate-tax-saving AB trust
• name beneficiaries to inherit your assets
• appoint someone to manage trust property inherited by children
• keep control over trust property while you live
• appoint someone to manage trust property if needed
• understand how to transfer all types of assets to your trust, including real estate, stocks, jewelry, art or business assets

Make Your Own Living Trust includes all the forms you need to create your own trust, plus step-by-step instructions for filling them out. Completely updated and revised, this edition includes the latest tax and legal information, including updated information about the federal estate tax.

Good in all states except Louisiana.

About the author

Denis Clifford, a graduate of Columbia Law School, where he was an editor of The Law Review, is a lawyer who specializes in estate planning. He is the author of many Nolo titles, including Quick and Legal Will Book, Make Your Own Living Trust and Plan Your Estate and coauthor of A Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples. He has been interviewed by such major media as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Money Magazine.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Make Your Own Living Trust
• Author: Denis Clifford
• Edition: 12
• Publisher: NOLO, 2015
• ISBN: 1413321011, 9781413321012
• Length: 352 pages
• Subjects: Law / Estates & Trusts; Law / Living Trusts