Their Lives, Their Wills (Women, Gender, and the West)
by Amy M. Porter
In 1815, in the Spanish settlement of San Antonio de Bexar, a dying widow named Maria Concepcion de Estrada recorded her last will and testament. Estrada used her will to record her debts and credits, specify her property, leave her belongings to her children, make requests for her funeral arrangements, and secure her religious salvation. Wills like Estrada's reveal much about women's lives in the late Spanish and Mexican colonial communities of Santa Fe, El Paso, San Antonio, Saltillo, and San...
Revised and updated--the essential workbook for creating a Living Trust and securing your familySince Robert A. Esperti and Renno L. Peterson's groundbreaking book, Loving Trust, was published in 1988, more and more people have chosen Living Trusts as a probate-free alternative to wills or conventional substitutes. Now in this revised edition, Esperti and Peterson, with David K. Cahoone, have updated and expanded this easy-to-use guide that explains everything you need to know about creating and...
Leave your family peace of mind with this new approach to wills and estates Whenever Elizabeth Arnold tells people her specialty, they usually share their own family dilemmas. Maybe Dad left behind a misguided or inadequate will. Maybe Aunt Sue nabbed the vase that wasnt in Grandmas will and Aunt Pat hasnt spoken a kind word to her since. Maybe Sis cant decide who should get the kids in case of a tragedy, so she doesnt have any will at all. Such tales of woe have nothing to do with legal o...
Keys to Estate Planning and Trusts (Barron's Business Keys)
by Professor Emeritus D Larry Crumbley, Edward E Milan, and Edward E Milam
Emanuel Law Outlines (Emanuel Law Outlines)
by Wendel and Peter T Wendel
This invaluable book really will enable you to prepare your own will. It will alert you to the many and broad ranging matters you should consider, and covers factual and legal requirements and technicalities in language that the lay-person can understand. Author, Gordon Bowley, draws on his thirty years as a family solicitor to suggest the best and most effective ways of ensuring that your estate is easy to deal with by those you leave behind and that it goes to those who you want to benefit. Th...
How to Write Your Own Living Will (How to Write Your Own Living Will)
by Atty Edward A Haman and Douglas E Godbe
Although Inheritance tax is a technical and increasingly complex subject, this book is intended to give the non-lawyer a thorough, working understanding of the tax. It points out steps that can be taken to ensure that hard-earned wealth can be passed to those they care for, rather than leaving it for the state to dissipate. This book will enable readers to: assess their particular situation and discover where it might be considerably improved; talk with advisers intelligently; judge their worth;...