Reviews
In Nolo you can trust. The firm's self-help legal books have a 20+ year track record, and Denis Clifford's clearly written Make Your Own Living Trust should prove an enormous help to families who want to spare their heirs the expense and trouble of probate. Jan Rosen The New York Times There are important differences between the trust-mill approach and that of such well-respected products as Nolo's Make Your Own Living Trust. The Wall Street Journal If you think you can prepare your own living trust, an excellent books is Make Your Own Living Trust. Chicago Tribune A do-it-yourself manual with checklists, step-by-step procedures, worksheets and forms. It even offers ideas for getting professional legal help for special questions or circumstances. Los Angeles Times You can create your own [living trust] with Make Your Own Living Trust. Smart Money As if life weren't complicated enough, now dying is, too. But it can be simpler for your family and friends with a living trust. [Clifford] shows how living trusts work, naming beneficiaries and creating a backup will. Orange County Register * Syndicated columnist David W. Myers recommends Make Your Own Living Trust in his column About Real Estate (Oct. 4, 2003) (as seen in The Observer in North Carolina and other metro newspapers): I highly recommend attorney Denis Clifford's Make Your Own Living Trust, Fifth Edition (Nolo Press). It's the most comprehensive publication I have seen about living trusts and includes all the fill-in-the-blank forms you would likely need to create a trust of your own.
Synopsis
No other book covers living trusts better -- or more simply -- than this bestselling book. Death may be inevitable, but probate doesn't have to be. By creating a living trust, your property will bypass lengthy and expensive probate proceedings and go directly to the people you've designated, quickly and easily. Make Your Own Living Trust explains how to create a living trust, transfer property to the trust and amend or revoke the trust at any time. Specifically, it covers how to create various living trusts, including an AB trust (also known as a "marital trust" or "bypass trust"), transfer assets to your trust, including real estate, stocks and bonds, jewelry, art or a small business, name beneficiaries for all trust property, sign your document and make it legal, appoint someone to manage property left to minors or young adults, provide for trust property management if you become incapacitated and retain absolute control over trust property while you live. Make Your Own Living Trust includes all the forms you need -- as tear-outs and on CD-ROM -- to create your own trust, plus step-by-step instructions for filling them out. Completely updated and revised, the 8th edition covers the latest laws and information about federal and state estate taxes. Good in all states except Louisiana., Comprehensive information and all the forms you need to create a living trust, including children's subtrusts, an AB trust and a back-up will., Property left in a living trust bypasses lengthy and expensive probate court proceedings and goes directly to the person it's left to, quickly and easily. Make Your Own Living Trust clearly explains: how a living trust works-how to create a trust-how to transfer property to a trust-how to amend or revoke a trust at any time. The bestseller also provides all the forms and instructions necessary to create a basic living trust, a marital life estate trust (A-B trust) and a back-up will. Good in all states except Louisiana.