- Choose an executor.

A do-it-yourself manual for making your own living trust, with checklists, step-by-step procedures, worksheets, and forms.

A last will and testament allows you to specify who your assets will pass to following your death, make property management arrangements for young beneficiaries, appoint guardians, forgive debts, and more. This self-help legal kit includes step-by-step instructions, detailed information and all the legal forms necessary to prepare your own last will and testament without the need or expense of hiring a lawyer. ✔ Prepare a legal will in minutes. ✔ Step-by-step instructions. ✔ Lawyer approved legal kit. ✔ Valid in all states (except Louisiana). ✔ See below for a full product description. Create Your Will in Minutes. If you die without making a valid last will and testament, you will have died intestate. You will then have no control over who your property is distributed to or even who takes care of your children following your death. Both of these matters will be determined by state laws which are often decades old. There is also the added risk that your estate could be substantially depleted due to the high levels of legal and professional fees associated with dying intestate. Making a last will and testament is the only way to ensure that you have control over these matters and that you can properly provide for the needs of your family. This self-help kit provides you with step-by-step instructions, detailed information and all the legal forms necessary to make a will and to ensure that your property passes to your loved ones after your death. ✔ Make cash and specific property gifts to your loved ones. ✔ Appoint guardians to care for your minor children. ✔ Appoint executors to wind up your estate. ✔ Create trusts for minor beneficiaries. ✔ Make funeral arrangements.

A New York Times correspondent shares his financial successes and mishaps, offering an everyman's guide to straightening out your money once and for all. Money management is one of our most practical survival skills—and also one we've convinced ourselves we're either born with or not. In reality, financial planning can be learned, like anything else. Part financial memoir and part research-based guide to attaining lifelong security, This Is the Year I Put My Financial Life in Order is the book that everyone who has never wanted to read a preachy financial guide has been waiting for. John Schwartz and his wife, Jeanne, are pre-retirement workers of an economic class well above the poverty line, but well below the one percent. Sharing his own alternately harrowing and hilarious stories—from his brush with financial ruin and bankruptcy in his thirties to his short-lived budgeted diet of cafeteria french fries and gravy—John will walk you through his own journey to financial literacy, which he admittedly started a bit late. He covers everything from investments to retirement and insurance to wills (at fifty-eight, he didn't have one!), medical directives and more. Whether you're a college grad wanting to start out on the right foot or you're approaching retirement age and still wondering what a 401(K) is, This Is the Year I Put My Financial Life in Order will help you become your own best financial adviser.

No one wants to contemplate their own death, but for your own peace of mind, it makes sense to create a will even when you're in the healthy and thriving portion of your life. With a will, you can rest easy knowing that the people you love will be cared for should there be an unexpected death. Once you create a will, it's also possible to make adjustments as needed, therefore guaranteeing that your will reflects your intent at any given portion of time. What you'll learn... The Fundamentals of Writing a Will Essential Information to Include in Your Will Keeping the Costs of Will-Writing Low Common Mistakes to Avoid Other Functions of a Will Regularly Updating Your Will Much, much more! A will is different from a living will, power of attorney or personal directive, which spells out the level of medical treatment you want to receive before you die, and who has the authority to manage your legal and financial affairs.

Covers how to prepare a legal will without an attorney. Necessary forms are clearly illustrated and easy to follow. Written by a nationally respected trial lawyer and corporate attorney.

Provides all the instructions you need to create a legally valid will of your own.

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

Author and former literary agent Nathan Bransford shares his secrets for creating killer plots, fleshing out your first ideas, crafting compelling characters, and staying sane in the process. Read the guide that New York Times bestselling author Ransom Riggs called "The best how-to-write-a-novel book I've read."

They say the only two things that are certain in this world are death and taxes. Now, since we can't escape either, we might as well prepare ourselves for the inevitable. Just as there are ways to legally minimize the taxes that you pay, there are also ways to prepare for your eventual passing. Creating a last will and testament tells those who we leave behind how we would like our affairs to be handled. It takes the guesswork out, avoiding possible distress and confusion for our grieving loved ones, and it protects them from your financial assets being distributed elsewhere. Creating a last will and testament is not exclusive to the very rich. Every adult person can - and should - benefit from preparing a will, and that's exactly what this book is designed to help you do. Here, you'll be provided with an overview of the different types of wills so as to help you decide how to draft yours. You will learn about the various purposes your will can serve, what all should be included, and how to make sure your will is legally valid. No need to put this off any longer: Let's get started (and get it over with) today!