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How to Avoid Probate for Everyone: Protecting Your Estate for Your Loved Ones

by Ronald Farrington Sharp

Estate planning options beyond living trusts

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Estate planning options beyond living trusts

Ronald Farrington Sharp’s guide organizes probate avoidance around practical estate-planning choices, including beneficiary designations, forms of joint ownership, deeds, and ways to transfer vehicles or other assets. It also explains living trusts and discusses how trusts can address complications such as distributing personal property. The book presents these approaches as alternatives to consider, while noting that state laws differ and describing probate procedures and estate-settlement choices. Sample documents offer a view of the paperwork involved. Its scope combines explanations of common estate-planning tools with attention to probate, guardianship, conservatorship, and misconceptions about estate settlement.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • People seeking an overview of probate and estate-settlement options
  • Readers comparing living trusts with other ways of arranging asset transfers
  • Those interested in sample estate-planning documents and practical explanations

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Probate avoidanceEstate planningLiving trusts and alternativesAsset transfer and beneficiary designationsGuardianship and conservatorship

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Book overview

Learn How to Prepare Your Estate and Avoid Costly Mistakes

Want to avoid probate? Gleaned from his forty-four years as an estate attorney, Sharp describes the probate process and the many reasons why it should be your last resort in estate settlement methods in How to Avoid Probate for Everyone. Living trusts are important, but there are many alternatives to using a living trust for probate avoidance. These alternatives are explained step-by-step as Sharp delves into the details. Examples of such approaches include:
  • While state laws vary, most allow for expedited procedures for low-value estates without having to create a trust.
  • There are a dozen different ways of leaving assets to heirs automatically at death.
  • Special types of deeds allow you to keep control of your real estate during lifetime yet transfer it to heirs automatically at death.
  • There are several ways of titling vehicles that allow heirs to get them without court procedures.
  • Beneficiary designations on bank and investment accounts keep them out of your probate estate.
  • Joint ownership of accounts and real estate can solve inheritance problems.
  • Common myths and misconceptions about estates and probate are debunked.
Trusts are covered in detail, including a section on must-use trust provisions to cover common complications and showing how a trust can easily resolve these. Joint and single trusts are examined and issues, such as how to handle personal property items, are suggested. (For instance, who gets the piano?) By avoiding probate court-supervised adult guardianship and conservatorship, families can avoid embarrassing and time-consuming incompetency hearings in court. Samples of the described documents are also included to give the reader an idea of what the paperwork actually looks like. Sharp's matter-of-fact explanations will prepare any reader to take the necessary steps to prepare their estate with confidence and avoid probate.
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