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| Your Estate Planning Legal Companion | |
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| A First Look at Estate Planning | |
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| Evaluating Your Personal Situation | |
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| Your Property | |
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| Choosing Your Beneficiaries | |
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| Providing for Young Children | |
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| Planning for Incapacity | |
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| Transferring Your Property After You Die | |
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| Estate Taxes | |
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| Making Changes | |
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| More Estate Planning Resources From Nolo | |
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| Your Beneficiaries | |
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| Direct Beneficiaries | |
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| Alternate Beneficiaries | |
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| Beneficiary Complexities | |
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| Disinheritance | |
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| Talking It Over | |
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| Children | |
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| Naming Someone to Care for Young Children | |
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| Naming Someone to Manage Your Child's Property | |
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| Choosing How Your Children's Property Should Be Managed | |
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| Naming Children as Beneficiaries of Life Insurance | |
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| Tax-Saving Educational Investment Plans | |
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| Leaving Property to Adult Children | |
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| Leaving Property to Other People's Children | |
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| Planning for Incapacity: Medical Care and Finances | |
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| Medical Decisions | |
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| Financial Decisions | |
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| Wills | |
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| Will Requirements | |
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| Types of Wills | |
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| Probate | |
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| Using a Will in Your Estate Planning | |
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| Preparing Your Will | |
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| Challenges to Your Will | |
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| Living Trusts | |
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| How a Living Trust Works | |
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| Do You Need a Living Trust? | |
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| Living Trusts and Taxes | |
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| Living Trusts and Young Children | |
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| Shared Living Trusts for Couples | |
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| Making Key Decisions About Your Living Trust | |
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| Preparing Your Living Trust Documents | |
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| Other Ways to Avoid Probate | |
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| Pay-on-Death Bank Accounts | |
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| Transfer-on-Death Accounts for Securities | |
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| Transfer-on-Death Car Registration | |
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| Transfer-on-Death Deeds for Real Estate | |
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| Joint Tenancy | |
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| Tenancy by the Entirety | |
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| Community Property With Right of Survivorship | |
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| Community Property Agreements | |
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| Simplified Probate Proceedings | |
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| Life Insurance | |
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| Gifts | |
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| Retirement Plans as Estate Planning Devices | |
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| Individual Retirement Programs | |
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| Pensions | |
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| Choosing Beneficiaries for Individual Retirement Programs | |
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| Retirement Plans and Taxes | |
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| Estate Tax | |
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| Federal Estate Tax Exemptions | |
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| State Estate and Inheritance Tax | |
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| Gift Tax | |
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| The Federal Income-Tax Basis of Inherited Property | |
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| Reducing Federal Estate Taxes | |
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| Making Gifts During Life | |
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| Disclaimer Trusts | |
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| Tax-Saving Irrevocable Trusts | |
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| Disclaiming Gifts | |
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| Property Control Trusts | |
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| Marital Property Control Trusts for Second or Subsequent Marriages | |
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| Special Needs Trusts for People With Disabilities | |
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| Education Trusts | |
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| Spendthrift Trusts | |
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| Flexible Trusts | |
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| Lawyers | |
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| Will You Need a Lawyer? | |
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| Using Lawyers | |
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| Doing Your Own Research | |
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| Finalizing Your Estate Plan | |
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| Storing Your Estate Planning Documents | |
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| Revising Your Estate Plan | |
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| Finalizing Your Estate Plan | |
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| Leslie and Martin: A Couple in Their Late 50s | |
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| Michelle: A Single Mother in Her 40s | |
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| Randy and Lisa: A Prosperous Older Couple | |
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| Gail and Nick: A Young Married Couple | |
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| Richard: A Single Man | |
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| Clemencia and Pierre: A Couple in Their Second Marriage | |
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| Index | |