Understand the essential elements of both a single life policy irrevocable life insurance trust and survivorship policy irrevocable life insurance trust in order to meet your clients' estate planning needs. This concise primer offers a step-by-step guide to these trusts and includes sample trust forms and documents to adapt for your practice. Includes sample forms for a both types of irrevocable life insurance trusts along with notes to the drafter for each type of trust; forms also on CD-ROM.

Loring and Rounds: A Trustee's Handbook--well over 1,550 pages-- is regarded not only as authoritative but also as the most convenient, reliable, and complete single-volume source for trust doctrine. Get in-depth information on how to stay on top of the developments in this complex field of practice. The Handbook carries on the tradition of concise, practical, and up-to-date guidance for trustees, a tradition that began in 1898 with the First Edition. This classic trust reference distills the essence of trust law, illuminating the fundamental principles and answering the basic questions. Loring and Rounds: A Trustee's Handbook, 2017 Edition is up to date and includes eleven chapters of important information, such as chapters on: The Property Requirement The Trustee's Office Interests Remaining with the Settlor The Beneficiary The Trustee's Duties The Trustee's Liabilities Miscellaneous Topics of General Interest to the Trustee Special Types of Trusts The Income Taxation of Trusts Tax Basis/Cost of Trust Property

In the 114 years since its first publication, Augustus Peabody Loring 'scompact A Trustee's Handbook has come to be regarded as the mostconvenient, reliable, and complete source for trust research. This classicreference distills the essence of trust law, illuminating thefundamental principles and answering the basic questions:What are the duties of the trustee?What are the rights of the beneficiary?What are the rights of the settlor?What are the rights of third parties involvedLoring and Rounds: A Trustee's Handbook, 2013 Editioncarries on the tradition of concise, practical and up-to-date guidance fortrustees, giving you the latest in-depth information on how to stay on top ofthe developments in this complex field of practice.Loring and Rounds: A Trustee's Handbook is the gold standard andindispensable "go-to" resource for anyone seeking a comprehensive explanationof the vast tapestry of trust law. For over one hundred years it has been thebible for professionals and non-professionals, lawyers and non-lawyers whocreate, administer, and benefit from trusts.Also available on IntelliConnect . Call 888 -224 -7377 for moreinformation.

When Congress passed the Pension Protection Act of 2006, they created what may be the most significant reform to charitable planning since the Tax Reform Act of 1969. This practice-focused book is now fully updated to explain the legislation's impact on all aspects of charitable planning. It provides clear and insightful explanations of all relevant tax law, financial considerations, and includes drafting guidelines, and forms to assist with clients' charitable giving needs as part of a comprehensive estate and financial plan. Includes drafting guides and sample forms on CD-ROM.

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Practical Guide to Estate Planning provides an overview of estate planning, offering the widest discussion on planning principles and tools from the simple to the sophisticated. This book is not lacking in detail, as witnessed by its well-annotated collection of forms that will appeal to many experienced estate planners. The layout of this book reflects its emphasis on simplicity and clarity. 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 encompass the use of private foundations and split-interest trusts. Finally, Practical Guide to Estate Planning contains a set of estate planning forms. Included are a living trust, an irrevocable life insurance trust, an annual exclusion trust, a pour-over will, a will with outright dispositions, a codicil, a living will, a charitable remainder unitrust, a durable power of attorney, a health care proxy, a qualified personal residence trust (QPRT) and a Grantor Retained Annuity Trust (GRAT). The authors provide alternative drafting options as well as comprehensive annotations that can be used as quick references that explain why and how these devices operate.