Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060936312 ISBN 13: 9780060936310

Publisher: HarperBusiness, 2001

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

About the Author:

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.

Jeffrey L. Condon, Esq. has been practicing in trust, estate, and probate law since 1987 at the Law Offices of Condon & Condon in Santa Monica, California. He is also the author of The Living Trust Advisor and has conducted over three hundred family-inheritance-planning talks and seminars throughout the United States for numerous businesses, financial institutions, charities, brokerage firms, insurance companies, social clubs, and service organizations.

From Booklist:

Almost all books on estate planning explain how to maximize inheritance, minimize taxes, avoid probate, set up trusts, etc. The Condons, father and son lawyers, do this, too, but what they also do is consider the psychological and emotional aspects of leaving and inheriting money. Presenting more scenarios than a season full of made-for-television movies, the Condons cover such possibilities as "protecting" the inheritance from one's child's spouse, preventing squabbles over inherited property, selecting trustees or guardians, avoiding disputes between second spouses and children of one's first marriage, leaving money for pets, etc. With good sense, humor, and authority, the authors provide a thorough look at inheritance planning with an eye toward maintaining good, stable family relations well after the estate has been settled. David Rouse