Living Trusts for Everyone: Why a Will Is Not the Way to Avoid Probate, Protect Heirs, and Settle Estates (Second Edition)

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Good book for background for people looking to gain information about revocable living trusts. Also has sample letters in the back to set up and populate the trust. As a trustee to a living trust, this is exactly what i needed in order to ask the righ... Read More

A trust, if fully funded, avoids probate and saves a lot of lawyer fees. Trusts must be customized to the individual and to the estate.

Shorts chapters make for an easy on-and-off read. Easy to understand, concise and to the point. Get this one first.

Everyone who's a trustee settling a trust needs to purchase this book. Ronald farrington sharp writes in english that is comprehensible to the non-legal individual. The last chapter alone on what trustees need to do is really good.

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This piece of trash is written in a breezy style with content understandable for 4 year olds. It offers no practical advice of any sort for drafting a living trust. Having all these highlights that are half complete, it's useless to me as a a referenc... Read More

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This book is a best one to read it is very easy to read and to get a summary in a timely fashion

Excellent indepth introduction to the subject of living trusts

Wills and probate exposed as poor instruments of estate

It was time to update our trusts and this is a current 2017 version

Price

And now i know why trusts cost so much to set up they must be customized to the individual and to the estate allowing for a nu... Read More

Very informative read that saved me a lot of money and headaches

This book will convince you to spend 3500 to set up a living trust instead of 1500 for a will

And going through probate takes months and costs a lot of money

Competitiveness

Appreciated attorney’s balanced perspective and honesty about some less than ethical attorneys

I never knew there was such a difference between a will and a living trust and how more beneficial a living trust can be

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This product had a total of 819 reviews as of our last analysis date on Feb 7 2024.