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The Estate Planner Newsletter

Bringing you timely and relevant estate planning insights

Issued monthly, The Estate Planner keeps you up-to-date on the latest developments in estate planning and includes practical and timely feature articles written by experts in the field, including Robert Spenceley, Brian Nichols and Michael Atlas. Includes case summaries and legislative updates.

The Estate Planner is included free with your subscription to the Canadian Estate Planning Guide.

Wolters Kluwer CCH research subscriptions deliver the most timely, relevant and reliable tax information and commentary to Canada's tax professionals, significantly reducing research time.





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Canadian Estate Planning Guide

The latest information on all aspects of estate planning and related issues in Canada

To deliver the most effective tax and estate planning solutions you need the most authoritative source for information and advice, authored by leading experts in the industry. Comprehensive and easy to use, the Canadian Estate Planning Guide is a must-have tool when you need to find the right answers fast.

This guide is the first choice of estate planning professionals because it offers:

  • Comprehensive and reliable coverage from a single source, covering both tax and non-tax issues related to estate planning
  • Practical strategies and tactics to help you maximize wealth and minimize tax exposure for clients
  • A format that is simple and easy to use, even for the tax practitioner who only occasionally works with estates
  • In-depth information, analysis and detailed technical discussions for the practitioner
    specializing in tax planning for estates, or wills and estate planning
  • The speed and convenience of getting all your estate planning information online
  • Updates on an “as the news happens” basis

This guide’s extensive coverage includes topics such as:

  • Estate plans
  • Gifts and loans
  • Estate freezes
  • Post-mortem planning
  • Emigration to the U.S.
  • Asset protection
  • Powers of attorney and health care directives
  • Will planning
  • Trusts
  • Taxation of trusts
  • Beneficiaries
  • Avoiding probate fees
  • Creditor proofing
  • Charitable donations
  • U.S. estate and gift tax
Bonus features:
  • The Estate Planner monthly newsletter keeps you up-to-date on the latest
    developments affecting estate planning in Canada and includes case summaries,
    legislative updates, and feature articles written by experts
  • News Tracker brings you up-to-the-minute information on the latest tax developments. You choose the topic and how frequently you want to be updated.
  • Activity logs help you keep track of time spent on research
  • Access to an archive of in-depth articles on a wide variety of topics
  • All relevant CRA Interpretation Bulletins, Advance Tax Rulings and Information Circulars,
    reference tables and documents
  • Forms used by the CRA
  • Forms for trusts and powers of attorney for all provinces
  • Free training and technical support
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Canadian Estate Planning and Administration Guide

This service combines the benefits of the Canadian Estate Administration Guide and the Canadian Estate Planning Guide, making it the ultimate resource for estate planning and administration professionals.

Estate planning is a key growth area for tax and legal professionals. Are you taking full advantage of the opportunity? This is an invaluable resource for anyone who works in estate planning. The reason is simple. It will save you hours of research time and effort you can use to serve your clients better and grow your practice.

Authored by leading experts in the industry, current and comprehensive, you won't find a more authoritative source for information and advice on tax and estate planning.

Coverage includes:

  • Estate Freezes
  • Protection from Creditors
  • The Pros & Cons of Alter Ego and Joint Partner Trusts
  • Spousal Trusts
  • Tax-Planning the Will
  • Life Insurance and Registered Plan Designations
  • Post-Mortem Tax Planning
  • Strategies for Holding Real Property in the United States

Included with your subscription is Estate Planner, a monthly newsletter containing ongoing judicial and legislative developments affecting estate planning in Canada.


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Estate Planning (2012 Edition) (U.S.)

Available: November 2011

Estate Planning provides the most encyclopedic coverage of estate planning practice, from complex transfer tax laws and essential strategy to inter vivos gifts and post-mortem activities. Providing in-depth analysis and expert guidance on the various arrangements that may be employed to dispose of wealth, this valuable reference offers exhaustive coverage of the law, strategies, and practices needed to create a comprehensive estate plan, including advice on opportunities to escape or shift the tax burden in scores of typical and not-so-typical situations.   

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The Estate Planner's Handbook, 4th Edition

An indispensable guide with substantial changes and important updates.

The Estate Planner's Handbook provides a concise yet comprehensive overview of many of the most important issues in the estate planning process. It will aid estate planners, lawyers, accountants and other professional advisors in identifying critical updates that they need to be aware of and will prove to be invaluable in developing creative estate planning solutions.

New and emerging issues in the Estate Planning field
Death of a Taxpayer, 10th Edition Strategic Use of Trusts in Tax and Estate Planning

The fourth edition of The Estate Planner's Handbook is an indispensable guide with substantial changes and important updates covering a wide range of topics including issues such as estate planning strategies for disabled individuals and Henson trusts designed to safeguard access to provincial income support programs. Other critical updates include:

  • Jointly held property
  • The attribution rules
  • Tax Free Savings Accounts
  • Registered Disability Savings Plans
  • Legislative changes impacting taxation of charitable donations, the capital gains exemption
Essential topics in the estate planning process addressed in this edition include:
  • Wills
  • Multiple Wills
  • Tax Planning the Will
  • Will Substitutes
  • Continuing Powers of Attorney
  • Health and Personal Care by Proxy
  • Some Basic Trust Law Concepts & Principles
  • Taxation of Basic Trusts Used in Estate Planning
  • Certain Other Trusts Used in Estate Planning
  • Charitable Donations
  • Taxation at Death
  • United States Estate & Gift Tax
  • Probate
  • Dependants' Relief
  • Planning for the Disabled
  • Obligations to spouses and dependants
  • Rollovers to RRSPs and RRIFs

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Tax and Estate Planning with Real Estate, Partnerships and LLCs, 2015 (U.S.)

Authors: Jerome Ostrov, Kevin Kaiser, Robert Collins, John Bedosky

Covers important real estate tax law and estate planning issues. There are more than 200 examples that explain concepts that, because of complexity or other difficulties are hard to absorb in narrative form only.

Also covered is how the intersecting tax and estate planning issues affect non-U.S. citizens who find themselves subject to U.S. taxation and estate planning issues of interest to U.S. citizens with interests abroad. Transfer tax and recordation tax issues are also discussed.

Chapter 1 The Personal Residence
Chapter 2 Real Estate Partnerships
Chapter 3 Limited Liability Companies
Chapter 4 Passive Loss and At-Risk Limitations
Chapter 5 Real Estate Investment Trusts
Chapter 6 Disposition and Restructuring of "Distressed" and "Awkwardly Held" Real Estate
Chapter 7 Exchanges of Like-Kind Property and Involuntary Conversions
Chapter 8 Construction, Improvement and Leasing of Real Estate; Associated Deductions, Depreciation, and Credits
Chapter 9 Capital Gains Treatment and Installment Sales Provisions
Chapter 10 Charitable Gifts of Real Estate
Chapter 11 Asset Protection
Chapter 12 Exempt Organization Ownership of Real Estate
Chapter 13 Estate and Gift Planning with Real Estate — General Principles
Chapter 14 Estate Planning with Real Estate — Valuation and Discounting Issues
Chapter 15 International Tax and Estate Planning

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Tax and Estate Planning with Real Estate, Partnerships and LLCs, 2014 (US)

Authors: Jerome Ostrov, 
                 Kevin Kaiser, 
                 Robert Collins

Covers important real estate tax law and estate planning issues. There are more than 200 examples that explain concepts that, because of complexity or other difficulties are hard to absorb in narrative form only.

Also covered is how the intersecting tax and estate planning issues affect non-U.S. citizens who find themselves subject to U.S. taxation and estate planning issues of interest to U.S. citizens with interests abroad. Transfer tax and recordation tax issues are also discussed.

Chapter 1        The Personal Residence
Chapter 2        Real Estate Partnerships
Chapter 3        Limited Liability Companies
Chapter 4        Passive Loss and At-Risk Limitations
Chapter 5        Real Estate Investment Trusts
Chapter 6        Disposition and Restructuring of "Distressed" and "Awkwardly Held" Real Estate
Chapter 7        Exchanges of Like-Kind Property and Involuntary Conversions
Chapter 8        Construction, Improvement and Leasing of Real Estate;
                          Associated Deductions, Depreciation, and Credits
Chapter 9        Capital Gains Treatment and Installment Sales Provisions
Chapter 10      Charitable Gifts of Real Estate
Chapter 11      Asset Protection
Chapter 12      Exempt Organization Ownership of Real Estate
Chapter 13      Estate and Gift Planning with Real Estate - General Principles
Chapter 14      Estate Planning with Real Estate - Valuation and Discounting Issues
Chapter 15      International Tax and Estate Planning



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Strategic Use of Trusts in Tax and Estate Planning

Strategic Use of Trusts in Tax and Estate Planning provides comprehensive and concise coverage of practical strategies and tactics to maximize the use of trusts in tax, estate and financial planning. Specifically designed for tax, legal and financial planning professionals, this is an essential resource for researching inter-vivos and testamentary trusts and understanding their domestic and foreign use. It clearly identifies tax savings situations, measures the risks involved and points out the items that can compromise the recourse of a trust for tax and financial planning purposes. This thorough guide provides an in-depth analysis of the attribution rules including recent CRA technical interpretations and court cases dealing with trusts and the attribution rules.

In a dynamic and practical way, the author shares her extensive knowledge of the trust as a vehicle for planning. You will discover that the trust can not only be part of an estate planning framework, but can also be used in a vast number of situations. With this resource, you will be able to elaborate innovative strategies more easily and better understand the sometimes complex statutory framework.


About the author


Caroline Rhéaume, LL.L, M.Fisc., Adm.A., TEP, has her own firm and specializes in Canadian, American and French tax and estate planning, the use of trusts, incentive compensation of senior management and expatriate taxation. She also developed an expertise in the taxation of investments. She provides tax consulting services to high-net-worth individuals and families and oversees the coordination and administration of these services across Canada, France and the United States. Caroline gained her international experience working with multinational clients of all sizes. She is also the first professional from the province of Quebec to have completed the Seven Stages of Money Maturity program offered by the Kinder Institute that trains and coaches financial advisors worldwide.

Ms. Rhéaume is the author of the best sellers Utilisation des fiducies en planification fiscale et financière and Stratégies de planification utilisant des fiducies, two books also publis

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Price on Contemporary Estate Planning (2015) (U.S.)

Author: John R. Price

Providing theoretical grounding and a practice-oriented approach, Price and Donaldson show how to handle the full range of estate planning problems and techniques, including:

  • Client counseling
  • Durable powers of attorney
  • Living wills
  • Private annuities
  • Charitable remainder trusts
  • Life insurance
  • Lifetime noncharitable gifts
  • Closely held business interests
  • Community and marital property
  • Retirement plans and IRAs
  • Post-mortem planning
  • Professional responsibility
Helpful practice tools include numerous real-life examples illustrating application of principles, ready-to-adapt forms, and checklists.

Chapter 1       Professional Responsibility and Estate Planning
Chapter 2       Basic Transfer Tax Laws and Estate Planning Strategies
Chapter 3       Concurrent Ownership and Nontestamentary Transfers
Chapter 4       Wills and Related Documents
Chapter 5       The Gift and Estate Tax Marital Deductions
Chapter 6       Life Insurance
Chapter 7       Planning Lifetime Noncharitable Gifts
Chapter 8       Gifts to Charitable Organizations
Chapter 9       Limiting Estate Size Through Intrafamily Transactions
Chapter 10    Trusts
Chapter 11    Closely-Held Business Interests
Chapter 12    Post-Mortem Planning
Chapter 13    Estate and Income Tax Planning for Retirement Plans and IRAs

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Price on Contemporary Estate Planning (2014) (U.S.)

Providing theoretical grounding and a practice-oriented approach, Price and Donaldson show how to handle the full range of estate planning problems and techniques, including:

  1. Client counseling
  2. Durable powers of attorney
  3. Living wills
  4. Private annuities
  5. Charitable remainder trusts
  6. Life insurance
  7. Lifetime noncharitable gifts
  8. Closely held business interests
  9. Community and marital property
  10. Retirement plans and IRAs
  11. Post-mortem planning
  12. Professional responsibility and more!

Chapter 1        Professional Responsibility and Estate Planning
Chapter 2        Basic Transfer Tax Laws and Estate Planning Strategies
Chapter 3        Concurrent Ownership and Nontestamentary Transfers
Chapter 4        Wills and Related Documents
Chapter 5        The Gift and Estate Tax Marital Deductions
Chapter 6        Life Insurance
Chapter 7        Planning Lifetime Noncharitable Gifts
Chapter 8        Gifts to Charitable Organizations
Chapter 9        Limiting Estate Size Through Intrafamily Transactions
Chapter 10      Trusts
Chapter 11      Closely-Held Business Interests
Chapter 12      Post-Mortem Planning
Chapter 13      Estate and Income Tax Planning for Retirement Plans and IRAs

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Practical Guide to Estate Planning, 2014 Edition (with CD) (US)
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Estate & Retirement Planning Answer Book, 2014 Edition
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Practical Guide to Estate Planning, 2015 Edition (with CD) (U.S.)

Authors: Ray D. Madoff, Cornelia R. Tenney, Martin A. Hall, Lisa Nalchajian Mingolla

Provides an overview of estate planning, offering the widest variety of discussion on planning principles and tools from the simple to the sophisticated. Its scope includes a general overview of the estate planning process. It then addresses the rules involved in estate planning and the various ways in which estates may be structured to achieve desired tax effects. It goes on to discuss gifts, and some of the more specialized areas of estate planning, including generation-skipping transfer tax rules and charitable planning, which encompasses the use of private foundations and split-interest trusts. This book contains a set of estate planning forms.

1. The Estate Planning Process
2. Basic Rules of Property Transfers Upon Death
3. Basic Estate Planning Documents
4. Trust Basics
5. Estate and Gift Tax Basics: Tax Tools of the Estate Planner
6. Planning for A Spouse or Nonmarital Partner
7. Issues in Planning for Children
8. Using Gifts in Estate Planning
9. Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Planning
10. Charitable Giving
11. Planning for a Closely Held Business Interest
12. Insurance
13. Estate Planning with Retirement Benefits
14. Post Mortem Estate Planning
Form 1 Living Trust
Form 2 Living Trust Amendment
Form 3 Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust
Form 4 Annual Exclusion Trust
Form 5 Additional Annual Exclusion Trust
Form 6 Will

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Practical Guide to Estate Planning, 2014 Edition (with CD) (U.S.)

Authors: Ray D. Madoff,
                Cornelia R. Tenney, 
                Martin A. Hall, 
                Lisa Nalchajian Mingolla

Provides an overview of estate planning, offering the widest variety of discussion on planning principles and tools from the simple to the sophisticated. Its scope includes a general overview of the estate planning process. It then addresses the rules involved in estate planning and the various ways in which estates may be structured to achieve desired tax effects. It goes on to discuss gifts, and some of the more specialized areas of estate planning, including generation-skipping transfer tax rules and charitable planning, which encompasses the use of private foundations and split-interest trusts.

This book contains a set of estate planning forms.

1. The Estate Planning Process
2. Basic Rules of Property Transfers Upon Death
3. Basic Estate Planning Documents
4. Trust Basics
5. Estate and Gift Tax Basics: Tax Tools of the Estate Planner
6. Planning for Spouse or Nonmarital Partner
7. Issues in Planning for Children
8. Using Gifts in Estate Planning
9. Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Planning
10. Charitable Giving
11. Planning for a Closely Held Business Interest
12. Insurance
13. Estate Planning with Retirement Benefits
14. Post Mortem Estate Planning
- Form 1 LivingTrust
- Form 2 Living Trust Amendment
- Form 3 Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust
- Form 4 Annual Exclusion Trust
- Form 5 Additional Annual Exclusion Trust
- Form 6 Will with Pour-Over Provision
- Form 7 Will with Outright Dispositions
- Form 8 Codicil
- Form 9 Durable Power of Attorney
- Form 10 Health Care Proxy
- Form 11 Living Will
- Form 12 Charitable Remainder Unitrust
- Form 13 Qualified Personal Residence Trust (QPRT)
- Form 14 Grantor Retained Annuity Trust (GRAT)

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Price on Contemporary Estate Planning (2014) (US)
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Multistate Guide to Estate Planning (2015) (w/CD)

Author: Jeffrey A. Schoenblum

Gives the estate planning professional instant access to the estate planning laws of all 50 states and the District of Columbia. In one comprehensive source, the Guide provides state-by-state guidance on how to minimize state taxes to preserve the multistate estate, achieve the desired disposition of property regardless of jurisdiction, resolve commonly encountered state law problems in estate practice, and assure asset protection. Each table is broken into detailed, separate analyses, which consist of a series of detailed questions. The tables are designed for state-by-state comparisons. All information in the charts generally reflects state laws in effect on May 31, 2014.

In addition, the book contains a back-of-the book CD with the Advance Directives of all 50 states.

  • Formal Will Requirements
  • Proving Foreign Wills
  • Non-resident Qualification as a Fiduciary
  • Small Estates Procedure
  • Will Substitutes
  • The Rights of a Spouse
  • Intestate Succession
  • Asset Protection
  • Rule Against Perpetuities
  • Living Will
  • Status of Children Conceived by Assisted Reproduction Techniques
  • Contracts Resulting in State Taxation of an Estate's Income
  • Income Tax Rates for Trusts & Estates
  • 14  State Inheritance, Estate, Generation Skipping Transfer, and Gift Taxes
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Multistate Guide to Estate Planning (2014) (w/CD)

Gives the estate planning professional instant access to the estate planning laws of all 50 states and the District of Columbia. In one comprehensive source, the Guide provides state-by-state guidance on how to minimize state taxes to preserve the multistate estate, achieve the desired disposition of property regardless of jurisdiction, resolve commonly encountered state law problems in estate practice, and assure asset protection. The easy-to-use format enables the estate planning professional to readily locate information concerning one state’s treatment of a particular issue (or compare the treatment required by several states) all on the same table. Each table is broken into detailed, separate analyses, which consist of a series of detailed questions. The tables are designed for state-by-state comparisons. All information in the new and updated charts generally reflects state laws in effect on May 31, 2013. 

In addition, the book contains a back-of-the book CD with the Advance Directives of all 50 states.
  1. Formal Will Requirements
  2. Proving Foreign Wills
  3. Nonresident Qualification as a Fiduciary
  4. Small Estates Procedure
  5. Will Substitutes
  6. The Rights of a Spouse
  7. Intestate Succession
  8. Asset Protection
  9. Rule Against Perpetuities 
  10. Living Will 
  11. Status of Children Conceived by Assisted Reproduction Techniques
  12. Contracts Resulting in State Taxation of an Estate's Income
  13. Income Tax Rates for Trusts & Estates
  14. State Inheritance, Estate, Generation Skipping Transfer, and Gift Taxes

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Multistate Guide to Estate Planning (2013) (w/CD)

Gives the estate planning professional instant access to the estate planning laws of all 50 states and the District of Columbia. In one comprehensive source, the Guide provides state-by-state guidance on how to minimize state taxes to preserve the multistate estate, achieve the desired disposition of property regardless of jurisdiction, resolve commonly encountered state law problems in estate practice, and assure asset protection. The easy-to-use format enables the estate planning professional to readily locate information concerning one state’s treatment of a particular issue (or compare the treatment required by several states) all on the same table. Each table is broken into detailed, separate analyses, which consist of a series of detailed questions. The tables are designed for state-by-state comparisons. All information in the new and updated charts generally reflects state laws in effect on May 31, 2012.

In addition, the book contains a back-of-the book CD with the Advance Directives of all 50 states.

  • 1. Formal Will Requirements
  • 2. Proving Foreign Wills
  • 3. Nonresident Qualification as a Fiduciary
  • 4. Small Estates Procedure
  • 5. Will Substitutes
  • 6. The Rights of a Spouse
  • 7. Intestate Succession
  • 8. Asset Protection
  • 9. Rule Against Perpetuities
  • 10. Living Will
  • 11. Status of Children Conceived by Assisted Reproduction Techniques
  • 12. Contracts Resulting in State Taxation of an Estate's Income
  • 13. Income Tax Rates for Trusts & Estates
  • 14. State Inheritance, Estate, Generation Skipping Transfer, and Gift Taxes

 

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Estate Planning: Principles and Problems, Third Edition

Published: October 2011


This coursebook features a case-study and problems approach in which the principles of estate planning are first introduced and then demonstrated through student analysis of short exercises and simulated client situations. A forms supplement on CD is an additional tool for giving students practice with drafting exercises.

Topics covered:

  • Tax Relief
  • Unemployment Insurance Re-authorization
  • Job Creation Act of 2010
  • Same-sex marriage and planning
  • Uniform Probate Code’s 2008 changes dealing with definitions of children
  • Durable powers of attorney and medical care directives, including “persistent vegetative state”
  • Retirement asset tax planning material
  • Trust “decanting”
  • Family offices and private trust companies
  • Pet Trusts

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Estate Planning with Life Insurance, 5th Edition

This popular guide provides critical insight into the many roles life insurance plays in Estate Planning. An essential reference for anyone involved in estate planning, this book will demonstrate how life insurance can assist your clients in securing lifetime financial success and establishing a strong legacy.

Tax and Family Business Succession Planning Implementing Estate Freezes, 3rd Edition This handy reference includes:
  • A comprehensive Estate Planning Fact Finder
  • How to resolve and plan for estate liquidity needs
  • The role of corporate-owned life insurance in estate and business planning
  • Detailed strategies for funding buy/sell agreements
  • Insurance needs and succession planning for owners of family businesses
  • The use of life insurance in planning with trusts
  • The role of life insurance in charitable giving

New for this edition:
  • Discussion of new income tax rules for 10/8 policies and leveraged insured annuities
  • Discussion and planning issues regarding recent CRA statements on corporate ownership and beneficiary designations
  • Review of proposed new rules for exempt life insurance policies
  • Expanded commentary regarding the transfer of insurance policies between corporations and shareholders
  • Update on changes to dividend tax rates and the capital gains exemption
  • Expanded commentary on post-mortem tax planning including “pipeline” planning
  • Detailed new section on family shareholders agreements
  • Review of new rules affecting retirement compensation arrangements
  • Important new cases concerning shareholder disputes and dependant and spousal support claims
  • Expanded case studies

Glenn Stephens LLB, was called to the Ontario Bar in 1982 and spent two years with a major accounting firm before joining the insurance industry as a tax and estate planning consultant. Glenn subsequently became a partner in a Toronto law firm before returning to the insurance industry in 1996 as a tax and estate planning consultant to a major Canadian insurance distributor. Glenn is a Director, Planning Services with PPI Advisory in Toronto, and provides tax and legal support to PPI Associates across Canada. He has been with PPI since 2004. Glenn has le

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Estate Planning (2013 Edition) (U.S.)

Estate Planning provides the most encyclopedic coverage of estate planning practice, from complex transfer tax laws and essential strategy to inter vivos gifts and post-mortem activities. Providing indepth analysis and expert guidance on the various arrangements that may be employed to dispose of wealth, this valuable reference offers exhaustive coverage of the law, strategies, and practices needed to create a comprehensive estate plan, including advice on opportunities to escape or shift the tax burden in scores of typical and not-so-typical situations.

Volume One

  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Chapter 2 Intestacy: Estate Plans by Operation of State Law
  • Chapter 3 Wills as Estate Planning Instruments
  • Chapter 4 Trusts as Estate Planning Instruments
  • Chapter 5 Income Taxation of Trusts, Estates, Grantors and Beneficiaries
  • Chapter 6 Inter Vivos Transfers
  • Chapter 7 Wealth Transfer Taxation of Inter Vivos Transfers

Volume Two

  • Chapter 8 Nonprobate Transfers: Life Insurance
  • Chapter 9 Nonprobate Transfers: Retirement Benefits
  • Chapter 10 Concurrent Interests
  • Chapter 11 Future Interests
  • Chapter 12 Powers of Appointment: Building Flexibility Into the Plan
  • Chapter 13 Marital Deduction Planning
  • Chapter 14 Charitable Deduction Planning
  • Chapter 15 Postmortem Estate Planning: Administration and Compliance

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