The book “Estate Planning for Single Mothers” is a guidebook that provides information and advice on how single mothers can effectively planned their estate. The book is written specifically for single mothers, who wants to ensure that their assets are protected in their children are taken care of in the event of their death or incapacity. The book covers a range of topics related to estate planning, including wills, trusts, powers of attorney, guardianship, and probate. It also addresses some of the unique challenges that single mothers may face in estate planning, such as choosing a guardian for their children, managing assets on their own, and dealing with the emotional financial stress of planning for the future.

Presents a comprehensive guide on understanding and preparing wills and trusts for parents of young children, describing the process of selecting a guardian, buying life insurance, designating powers of attorney, and choosing beneficiaries.

Covers all the fundamental areas of estate planning and incorporates relevant legislative changes. Provides checklists, tables, tips, case studies and examples. Latest issues and topics relating to financial and estate planning, superannuation and tax implications, effects on social security and benefits of business succession planning.

Discover the ins and outs of planning your own or your loved one’s last wishes with this easy-to-understand guide to estate planning. No one likes to talk about death, but being prepared for any unexpected tragedy can help your loved ones navigate your loss more easily in the long run. From creating your advanced medical directives to designating your beneficiaries, estate planning can ensure that your wishes are carried out when you are no longer around. With Estate Planning 101, you can get your affairs in order before any unfortunate incident occurs. This easy-to-understand guide comes with detailed information on what needs to be done to protect your estate. With information on creating a living will, minimizing estate taxes, choosing an executor, and more, you will be prepared for the future, no matter what it brings. Estate Planning 101 offers you step-by-step instructions and checklists to keep you organized for whatever life throws your way.

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.

A one-stop resource covering the gamut of unique issues women face when planning their estates, this comprehensive and up-to-date estate planning guide for women covers such topics as planning for second marriages, giving to charity, planning for retirement, handling the needs of children and aging parents. It also includes sample wills, contracts, forms, and planning sheets.

From this compact book, learn from a certified financial planner certificant CFP® who has helped hundreds of clients over more than thirty-five years practical estate planning steps you can take to protect yourself and those you love. This book, written in layperson’s words for easy understanding, explains aspects of wills, financial and medical powers of attorney, revocable living trusts, “living wills,” and much more. Learn how to use free tools such as beneficiary designations, POD, and TOD forms (and when not to use them) to avoid the expense, delay, and publicity of probate. Making distinctions among single ownership, joint ownership with rights of survivorship, and trust ownership are essential. This work explains personal retirement plans such as traditional and Roth IRAs, 401(k), and 403(b) employer retirement plans, along with concepts such as tax deferral, pretax, and after-tax contributions, transfers, and retirement plan distribution strategies. Income taxes, capital gain taxes, and estate taxes are also made simple. Michael shows you how to maintain control over your team of advisors while getting the most out of professionals who serve you. Having been a caregiver himself, learn from Michael how you can successfully navigate emotional concerns, preventing and reducing family arguments. Challenges faced by spouses, parents, adult children, caregivers, executors and administrators, heirs, and beneficiaries are highlighted to lighten your burden. Michael’s experience and education provide valuable insights for widows, widowers, and adult children suffering from the pain and fog of bereavement. This unique book combines both helpful tips to solve thorny obstacles you face, without confusing legalese, with an understanding of the feelings individuals and families face on the path from wellness, to illness, death, and while tackling postdeath estate settlement. This book fills a crucial unmet need enabling spouses, parents, and adult children to make wiser decisions while protecting those they love.

With society's rising affluence, children and families stand to inherit properties and many thousands and millions of dollars when parents and relatives pass away. The importance of setting out clear instructions about the distribution of your assets or wealth while you are still alive cannot be overstated. This process of estate planning involves making a will and perhaps setting up a trust, depending on your personal circumstances. The rise of the modern family and what such a family is likely to own, add to the diversity of planning required. In addition to the traditional two-parent family, we have families with single parents, partners of different races, nationalities and faiths, and same-sex partners. The modern family is likely to own foreign assets, a business, pets and digital assets, and likely to consider charitable giving in their estate planning. In this book, well-known estate planner Keon Chee takes you through the various aspects of estate planning, including the writing of a will, the setting up of a trust, planning your Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA) and setting out other important final wishes. The author has invited several highly experienced practitioners to share their specialist knowledge throughout the book enhancing the breadth of coverage.