Everything You Need to Know about Estate Planning

In lively, accessible language, Kevin Wark delivers an important message -- everyone needs an estate plan, and everyone needs one now. Today, the majority of baby boomers are in their forties or fifties. Poised to receive significant inheritances of their own, they have also benefited from recent stock market growth. They have accumulated wealth, and must now consider strategies to protect and increase it - both for their own enjoyment, and for that of their heirs. Everything You Need to Know about Estate Planning will help them do just that. Readers will learn about: planning for retirement; powers of attorney; wills and trusts; charitable gifts; family law and special circumstances; and the role of insurance. Featuring worksheets and a glossary of terms, Everything You Need to Know about Estate Planning is an indispensable and painless guide to planning for the future.