8 Ways to Avoid Probate

Save your family money, time and headaches with a few easy steps. Probate can drag on for years, and can easily cost your family thousands of dollars -- money that would otherwise have gone to them. 8 Ways to Avoid Probate offers simple but effective methods to skip the entire process -- plus real-world examples of how others have used them. In the end, you'll understand: *payable-on-death accounts *naming beneficiaries *special procedures for small estates *using joint ownership of property *creating a living trust *making gifts of property and money *and more The 6th edition provides the latest estate and gift tax rules, and now includes a ninth method: Using transfer-on-death deeds to pass on real estate.