LIVING TRUSTS FOR EVERYONE: WHY A WILL IS NOT THE WAY TO AVOID PROBATE, PROTECT HEIRS, AND SETTLE ESTATES

Book ID/图书代码： 06840013B66117

English Summary/英文概要： The misconceptions surrounding the last will and testament need to be put to rest: Wills benefit lawyers. Trusts benefit you. Period. Too often lawyers sell wills to clients only to sit back and wait to sell their probate services to their client’ s heirs. Modern estate planning should utilize the Living Trust as the effective, efficient, and inexpensive alternative to a will. Living Trusts for Everyone: Why a Will is Not the Way to Avoid Probate, Protect Heirs, and Settle explains why wills are not the best way to handle an estate and details the many advantages trusts have over wills in not only eliminating probate, but protecting your assets for your heirs. Anyone with minor children, disabled beneficiaries, blended families, or spendthrift heirs must have a trust to be sure the assets left behind are put to good use, and that your intentions are carried out. Lawyers may have vested interests in perpetuating the probate system, but this book will explain why legal services are not needed to do the clerical work in settling a trust after death. No legal jargon or confusing double-speak, just specific step-by-step instructions and sample form letters to settle a trust are included to take the mystery out of the process. This is not a do-it-yourself book and it doesn’t try to cram every type of trust onto its pages. Living Trusts for Everyone explains in specific terms what benefit a trust will have for you and gives you the tools to settle a loved one’s trust with no lawyers and no expense. For those who already have a trust, there is a list of what to look for to see if your trust is any good, or if it needs to be updated. Trust seminars are examined with warnings on what to look out for in setting up your trust. Everyone who cares about what happens to their assets at death should read Living Trusts for Everyone: Why a Will is Not the Way to Avoid Probate, Protect Heirs, and Settle!

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 通常而言，临终前的最后遗嘱总是会需要人们的见证：遗嘱让律师们受益，而信托之物则让你受益。绝大多数情况下，律师们向客户们进行游说，让他们回心转意，从而使得他们能够为其进行遗嘱认证，最终让客户的继承人们受益。现代产业规划遗嘱就应该利用“生前信托”作为遗嘱的一种替换选项，因为它具有有效性、高效性，并且耗费相对于遗嘱较低。《每个人的生前信托》将告诉你：为什么遗嘱无让让你有效地避开遗嘱认证、无法保护继承者们的权益，并将解释为何遗嘱并非处理遗产的最佳方式，同时本书还将详细论证信托比起遗嘱来的诸多优势之处，信托不仅能够取消遗嘱论证，还将有效地为你的后辈们保护他们的财产。如果你有次子、残疾受益人、家族关系复杂或是擅于挥霍的继承人，那么信托将成为你的最佳选择，它将帮助你确保你的遗产没有被胡乱挥霍，而是被用在了恰当的地方，而你的初衷也将被最大限度的实现。或许律师们花费了大量的精力去维持遗嘱认证系统的运行，但本书将帮助你明白我们并不需要法律在我们去世后去帮助我们完成牧师的工作。我们不需要专业的法律术语，也不需要那些令人费解的故弄玄虚，我们所需要的只有分步指导和简单的示例信件，去帮助我们建立基金，从而帮助我们摆脱神秘的过程。本书将不会是一本自助书籍，也不会试图全面的涵盖每一种信托方法。《每个人的身前信托》详细叙述了信托能为你带来怎样的好处，它将如何帮助你解决挚爱之人的遗产问题而无需通过律师且花费过多的费用。而对于那些已经设立了基金的人们而言，本书将帮助你核对是否基金运行有效，又是否需要对自己的基金进行必要的更新。信托研讨会将审查在建立信托的过程中的各类注意事项。如果你关心自己离世后的遗产状况，那么你就应该读一读《每个人的信托基金》：为何遗嘱并非避免遗嘱论证、保护继承人和获取平静生活的最佳选择！(DC)

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About the Author/作者介绍： 罗纳德•法林顿•夏普是密歇根地区的一名律师，现阶段他正致力于处理有关于信托和遗产规划以及遗嘱论证的相关案件。1975年时，夏普便成立了自己的公司。其公司主要是以转介绍为基础，为客户提供包括金融理财、专业保险、会计和遗产规划等一系列的整套服务。在其职业生涯的前半段里，夏普先生主攻家庭法以及离婚案件，而在过去的十年里，他逐渐将重心转移至遗产规划领域。自那以后，夏普先生已独自完成了3000余起信托和遗产规划案。他的第一部著作《打赢离婚之仗》由Allworth出版社于1998年出版发行，并于2005年获得第二版刊印。雷纳德已婚并有三名成年的孩子和一名孙子，他大部分时间主要在密歇根和佛罗里达两地。

Ronald Farrington Sharp is an attorney with offices in Michigan, now concentrating in and handling cases only in the areas of Trusts, Estate Planning, and Probate. Sharp established his firm in 1975. His company works closely on a referral basis with financial planners, insurance professionals, accountants and estate planners in developing a comprehensive estate plan package. For the first half of his career Mr. Sharp specialized in family law and divorce, in the past ten years gradually shifting the focus of the practice to estate planning. Since then, Mr. Sharp has personally prepared over three thousand trusts and estate plans. His first book with Allworth Press, Winning the Divorce War, was published in 1998, with a second edition in 2005. Ronald Sharp is married with three adult children and one grandchild and he divides his time between Michigan and Florida.

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