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9780816044269

The Executor's Handbook

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  • ISBN13:

    9780816044269

  • ISBN10:

    0816044260

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-04-01
  • Publisher: Facts on File
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Summary

Timely and up-to-date, The Executor's Handbook remains one of the only comprehensive step-by-step guides for nonprofessional estate executors, providing clear explanations of the most arcane aspects of estate law. Topics covered include the responsibilities associated with being an executor, understanding the provisions of a will, managing or liquidating assets, dealing with beneficiaries and creditors, handling income and death taxes, resolving family issues and situations, dispersal of non-monetary items, and much more.

Updates to this edition include:
-- New information on wills, including living and self-proving wills
-- New types of bank accounts, such as pay-on-death accounts
-- The Tax-payer Relief Act of 1997
-- New opportunities for executors
-- Settling trusts
-- Related state and federal laws, in texts and tables.

Complete with jargon-free definitions of legal terms, samples of legal forms, and a look at hidden funeral expenses, this book is an invaluable guide to anyone acting as an executor or considering doing so, or for any

Table of Contents

Tables
vii
Figures
ix
A Note to the Reader xi
Part 1 THE ROLE OF THE EXECUTOR
When Death Occurs
3(8)
Becoming an Executor
11(14)
Strategies Before Death
25(30)
Part 2 FIRST THINGS FIRST
Wills, Anatomic Gifts, and Funerals
55(30)
Sorting the Assets and Liabilities
85(18)
Part 3 PROBATE ADMINISTRATION
Avoiding or Minimizing Probate
103(12)
Initiating Probate
115(24)
Creditors' Claims
139(12)
Taxes
151(22)
Managing, Distributing, and Closing the Probate Estate
173(22)
Part 4 SPECIAL SITUATIONS
When There Is No Will
195(10)
Settling a Trust
205(14)
Protecting the Survivors
219(12)
Index 231

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Praise for the previous edition: Highly recommended...—Library Journal
The Executor's Handbook, Second Edition remains one of the only comprehensive step-by-step guides for nonprofessional estate executors, providing clear explanations of the most arcane aspects of estate law. Topics covered include the responsibilities associated with being an executor, understanding the provisions of a will, managing or liquidating assets, dealing with beneficiaries and creditors, handling income and death taxes, resolving family issues and situations, dispersal of non-monetary items, and much more.
Updates to this edition include:
New information on wills, including living and self-proving wills New types of bank accounts, such as pay-on death accounts
The Tax-payer Relief Act of 1997
New opportunities for executors
Settling trusts
Related state and federal laws, in texts and tables. Complete with jargon-free definitions of legal terms, samples of legal forms, and a look at hidden funeral expenses, this book is an invaluable guide to anyone acting as an executor or considering doing so, or for anyone looking for an executor.

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