How to bequeath your wealth to your successors — and save taxes Trusts and Wills are two ways of legally distributing your wealth to your intended successors or other beneficiaries. Intelligently planned, these two methods can also help you save tax for yourself and your successors. While Wills are better known, tax and succession planning through private or family trusts is also a tried and tested way of transferring assets and creating income for your successors, including unborn persons. In fact, private trusts have several great advantages over a Will. While a Will is often challenged in the courts — and the resultant dispute can take years to be settled — a properly created trust can help you pre-empt any such family strife. Secondly, by creating the right trust you can pass on your wealth even during your lifetime. This book offers expert guidance on how to bequeath your wealth as you want, whether by means of trusts or through a valid Will, in a tax-efficient manner: ● The various types of private and family trusts you can set up. ● Principles and procedure for creating a valid private trust. ● Advantages and tax planning aspects of private trusts. ● The concept and advantages of a living trust. ● How to transfer wealth to your family members, including minor children, during your lifetime through a trust. ● How to draft, execute and register your Will. ● What you can bequeath through your Will — and what you can't. ● How to create a new HUF through a Will. ● Ready-to-use drafts of typical Wills.

Written in clear, conversational English, this book can help anyone understand how a living trust avoids the complications, expenses, and delays of probate at times of incapacity and death.

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The law of succession rests on a single brute fact: you can't take it with you. The stock of wealth that turns over as people die is staggeringly large. In the United States alone, some $41 trillion will pass from the dead to the living in the first half of the 21st century. But the social impact of inheritance is more than a matter of money; it is also a matter of what money buys and brings about. Law and custom allow people many ways to pass on their property. As Friedman's enlightening social history reveals, a decline in formal rules, the ascendancy of will substitutes over classic wills, social changes like the rise of the family of affection, changing ideas of acceptable heirs, and the potential disappearance of the estate tax all play a large role in the balance of wealth. Dead Hands uncovers the tremendous social and legal importance of this rite of passage, and how it reflects changing values and priorities in American families and society.

Provides an overview of federal gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer tax laws for the law student or practitioner. Grantor trust rules affecting the wealth disposition process is also addressed. Other subjects include intestacy, succession, power of disposition limits, transfer requirements, revocation, extrinsic evidence, incapacity, and undue influence. Examines trusts and their alternatives, changes in will execution, and problems of construction in future interests. Overviews the Federal Transfer Tax laws relating to estates and trusts, deductions in computing taxable estates, asset valuation, and credits. Generally, emphasis is placed on the Uniform Probate Code throughout the text.

Renowned Maryland trusts & estates attorney, Aryeh Guttenberg, has drawn from his extensive experience to bring you strategies & forms for virtually every situation you will encounter. His insightful commentary provides a thorough discussion & analysis of sophisticated strategies & many key areas of estate planning, including explanations of The Maryland Law of Wills, Organizational Checklist of Wills, The Unified Gift & Transfer Tax System, Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax, Guide to Selection of Personal Representative, Trustees & Guardians, Formula Clauses for Wills & Trusts, Special Right of Election in Maryland, Q DOTS, Power of Appointment, Types of Joint Ownership, Disclaimers & Uses of Dynasty Trusts. This book gives you instant access to forms for virtually every situation that are adaptable for your clients. From preparing simple wills to complex wills & trusts, you will find forms both in the book & on the companion CD-ROM. The forms are arranged as modular templates so that you can customize your document creation with the easily interchangeable provisions & even create your own library of wills & trusts.