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Authors: Gerald M. Condon, Jeffrey L. Condon
ISBN-13: 9780060936310, ISBN-10: 0060936312
Format: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: July 2001
Edition: REVISED

Author Biography: Gerald M. Condon

Gerald M. Condon, Esq.(right), a noted trusts and estates lawyer, practices law with his son and coauthor Jeffrey L. Condon, Esq.(left), at Condon, Condon & Festa, based in Santa Monica, California.

Book Synopsis

This expert, one-of-a-kind handbook shows you how to:

Ensure that your inheritance instructions will he carried out — the way you want them to be

Protect your child's inheritance from creditors, ex-spouses, addictions, tax troubles, mismanagement, squandering, and other risks of loss

Prevent family conflict that can arise when parents die and children divide the "family money"

Leave more money to your children and grandchildren, and less to the IRS — and understand the hidden cost of a "death tax" repeal

	Preface, or Read This Before You Begin This Bookä
	Acknowledgments
1	What This Book Will Do for You	3
2	The Journey from Innocence to Reality	6
3	Why an Inheritance Plan?	9
4	If You Do Nothing, the Law Will Do It for You	13
5	The Unequal Inheritance	19
6	The Power Struggle	30
7	Don't Die with Your Children Owing You Money	36
8	Protecting the Inheritance While It's in the Hands of Your Child	47
9	Protecting the Money for the Financially Immature Child	54
10	Protecting the Inheritance from Your Child's Spouse	63
11	Protecting the Inheritance for the Disabled Child	75
12	Protecting the Inheritance from Your Child's Creditors	82
13	Cutting Out a Child from Your Will or Trust	89
14	Are Your Children Spending Their Inheritance - and You're Not Dead Yet?	99
15	How to Control Your Child's Life from the Grave	105
16	Who Should Be Your Child's Trustee?	111
17	Your Underage Child's Guardian	122
18	How to Leave Your Valuables and Household Contents to Your Children	133
19	Planning for the Succession of the Family Business	140
20	The Family Residence	150
21	Dividing Your Real Estate Investments	163
22	Protecting Your Surviving Spouse's Ownership and Control of the "Family Money"	169
23	Protecting the Surviving Parent from "Grasping Children"	171
24	Who Controls the Money and Property for the Incapacitated or Incompetent Surviving Spouse?	182
25	Does Your Wife Want to Manage the Family Money?	194
26	You May Leave Everything to Your Spouse - But Will Your Spouse Leave Everything to Your Children?	201
27	The Potential Battle Between Children of Your First Marriage and Your Second Wife	209
28	If You Are on Your Second Marriage, Who Will Get Your Half If You Die First - Your Children or the Children of Your Second Spouse?	214
29	Grandparents to the Rescue!	225
30	Including Your Grandchildren in Your Inheritance Plan	235
31	How You Can Die "Knowing" Your Pet Will Live Comfortably for the Rest of His Life	249
32	Leaving Your Money and Property to a Charity	254
33	"How Does the IRS Know How Much I'm Worth When I Die?"	269
34	Pay the Death Tax or Fight Back - Which One Sounds Like You?	275
35	How to Leave More to Your Children and Less to the IRS	279
36	I Can Get Your Death Tax Wholesale	294
37	Your Money Is Taxed a Second Time When Your Child Dies	298
38	Using the Living Trust to Keep Your Children and Property Out of the Probate Court	305
39	Don't Put Your House in Joint Tenancy with Your Child	312
40	Can You Leave Your Child an Inheritance Without Disqualifying Him from SSI?	323
41	What Your Children May Want to Know About Your Will or Living Trust	329
42	So You've Received an Inheritance - Now What Do You Do?	335
43	How to Prevent Your Siblings from Taking Your Share of Your Expected Inheritance	339
44	Get Your Parents' Names Off Title to Your House	344
	Final Thought: "Should I Tell My Children About My Inheritance Plan?"	349
	Index	351

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