The Rich Die Richer and You Can Too - Softcover

Zabel, William D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471155322 ISBN 13: 9780471155324

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1996

Synopsis

One of the world′s top estate planners shows you how to use the strategies of the wealthy to enrich and enlarge your estate!

"As a satisfied client I recommend that you read Bill Zabel′s book because it has useful tax advice no matter what your net worth may be." George Soros

Now in paper!

William Zabel is one of the world′s most sought–after estate and tax planners. He has advised some of America′s richest people on how to protect and enlarge their fortunes including members of the Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Annenberg, Merck, and Chrysler families. Now, in a book brimming with sound practical advice for readers in every income bracket, Zabel shares his decades of experience. Crackling with eye–opening anecdotes and fascinating stories taken from the lives of everyone from Picasso to Doris Duke, Jackie O., Andy Warhol, Howard Hughes, Henry Ford II, Steven Spielberg, Pamela Harriman, and many other celebrities, The Rich Die Richer and You Can Too offers expert advice on how to:

• Give money to family members gift–tax free
• Protect a family business
• Create a revocable living trust
• Benefit from a living will and health care proxy
• Save taxes by making charitable donations
• Protect your assets against creditors
• Utilize prenuption, postnuptial, and cohabitation agreements

WILLIAM D. ZABEL (New York, New York) is a senior partner in the law firm of Schulte Roth & Zabel. He is a frequent contributor for publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Harper′s, and The Atlantic Monthly.

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About the Author

"Bill Zabel is brilliant, ingenious, funny, and humane. This valuable book which is so much like its author will entertain and benefit all who read it." S. Daniel Abraham, founder, Slim–Fast Foods; President and CEO, Thompson Medical Company, Inc.

From the Back Cover

Praise for The Rich Die Richer and You Can Too "As a satisfied client I recommend that you read Bill Zabel’s book because it has useful tax advice no matter what your net worth may be." George Soros "For most of us, the subject of estate planning has a number of things working against it: it’s complicated, unexciting, and even off–putting (‘I can’t take it with me and I’d rather not go’). Yet this is a subject of huge importance and potential for anyone who has worked hard and has something to show for his or her effort. Kudos, then, for Bill Zabel’s trenchant, readable, and relevant book." Irvine O. Hockaday, Jr. President and CEO, Hallmark Cards, Inc. "Bill Zabel has managed to turn his how–to on writing a will into a crackling book about the wills and estates of celebrities such as Picasso, Doris Duke, Jackie Kennedy, Pamela Harriman, and Howard Hughes! Here’s a book you can’t put down because it’s so much fun and you learn something important at the same time. What more could anyone want?" Lesley Stahl " This is an eminently practical guide to questions that are enormously important for individuals, their families, and the causes that they care about. Wise planning should be seen as an inescapable responsibility, not as an option. As Mr. Zabel’s witty and well–written book makes clear, confronting these life–and–death issues with sophistication as well as compassion can also be highly satisfying." William G. Bowen, President, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; former President, Princeton University "Bill Zabel is brilliant, ingenious, funny, and humane. This valuable book which is so much like its author will entertain and benefit all who read it." S. Daniel Abraham, founder, Slim–Fast Foods; President and CEO, Thompson Medical Company, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471155322
• ISBN 13: 9780471155324
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320