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Setting your goals. Selecting your estate planning goals ; Personal concerns and estate planning -- Laying the groundwork. Special property ownership rules for married people ; Inventorying your property ; Your beneficiaries -- Children -- Wills -- Probate and how to avoid it. Probate and why you want to avoid it ; Living trusts ; Joint tenancy and tenancy by the entirety ; Pay-on-death designations, registrations, and deeds ; Life insurance ; Retirement...

Some simple planning can spare families the cost and delay of probate court proceedings after a loved one's death. Probate can drag on for years, and can easily cost thousands of dollars -- money that would otherwise have gone to survivors. "8 Ways to Avoid Probate" offers simple and effective methods for skipping the probate process so that property goes directly to the intended beneficiaries. In plain English, it explains: - setting up payable-on-death...

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"The Common Law" is a classic work from the great Supreme Court Justice, Oliver Wendell Holmes. In The Common Law, Holmes examines many aspects of the common law giving great attention to the historical perspective and precedence and its influence on modern common law. In this work you will lengthy discussions on several areas of law including: liability, criminal law, torts, contracts, and successions. Extensively annotated, this edition of "The...

Police officers risk their lives every day to protect and serve our homes, families and communities. Here is a notable collection of heartfelt stories from the front line told with honesty and compassion. Protect: These men and women are our eyes. Our ears. Our protectors. Those who wear a badge, doing their best to help people. Serve: These cops serve their communities. They serve their country. They're in the business of saving lives - even at...

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