Readers Preference Reviews

This is one of the most thorough consumer offerings for preparing your own will or basic trust.  It includes the software to actually create a will or trust document that will serve the needs of most people.  The book includes a discussion of what a will can and cannot do, how a trust helps and when it is not a good idea, how to get wills and trusts to work together for your best interest.  But wills and trusts are just aspect of good estate planning and the book discusses the use of a Durable Power of Attorney and Health Care Directive as well as providing the forms to create either or both.

Areas covered in detail include how to leave your property to whomever you wish, how to select an executor, and the difference between a living will and a living trust.  Additional information not found in a lot of other books includes the problems and pitfalls of domestic partnerships, tenancy ownership, community property, common law marriages and other items that may apply to your situation.  The software is very easy to use, installed without any problems and painlessly produced a quality document using a basic interview technique.  You simply answer the questions and the program produces the document based on what you want to accomplish.  With over five hundred pages it obviously goes over all the more common situations to customize your will or trust to your needs.  Quicken Willmaker Plus 2009 is highly recommended to anyone who wants to understand wills and basic trusts and perhaps create their own.
 

Editor: Shae Irving

Publisher: Nolo

950 Parker Street

Berkeley, CA 94710

ISBN: 9781413309027

Pages: 569 plux appendix and index

Price: $69.99