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Settling an estate can be like moving through a maze -- let The Executor's Guide lead the way.

If you're faced with wrapping up the affairs of a loved one who has died, you may feel overwhelmed by all the work ahead -- especially when you're grieving But with the right legal and practical information, you can do it.

The Executor's Guide will show you how to get organized, get the help you need and make progress one step at a time. Let it help you navigate an unfamiliar land of legal procedures and terminology. It explains:

preparing for the job of executor or trustee

the first steps to take

claiming life insurance, Social Security and other benefits

making sense of a will

what to do if there is no will

how to determine whether probate is necessary

caring for children and their property

taxes

an overview of probate court proceedings

dealing with family members

handling trusts

looking up your state's laws

working with lawyers, appraisers, accountants and other experts

The 3rd edition contains updated tables outlining key points of each state's laws, the latest information on estate taxes and worksheets that help you stay organized and on track..
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Thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the latest tax codes, the third edition of How to Settle an Estate is the essential step-by-step guide to lead readers through the complex and daunting process of settling an estate. In clear and practical lay terms, authors Charles K. Plotnick, L.L.B., and Stephan R. Leimberg, J.D., both experts in estate planning, provide readers with invaluable advice, including:

* How to raise cash for immediate estate expenses
* Dealing with insurance claims
* Knowing when to hire a lawyer, an accountant, and a stock broker
* Managing real estate
* Distributing assets
And much more...
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Price: $5.99 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Sell, Keep, or Toss is a unique guide to dealing with personal property during life's transitions Whether downsizing to a smaller home or dispersing the contents of a loved one’s estate, collectibles expert and professional appraiser Harry Rinker helps to simplify the complicated personal, familial, and financial decisions involved in clearing out a house. With practical, down-to-earth advice, Rinker shows how to determine what to Sell, Keep or Toss, and guides you through the intricacies of how to do it, including how to:

• Pass treasured mementos to future generations
• Recognize valuable collections
• Find reputable appraisers and auctioneers
• Get a tax benefit from donating unwanted items
• Maximize the profit on items sold.
Price: $9.92 [Notify me when price goes down.]

The Executor's Handbook is a step-by-step guide for estate executors and personal representatives. Covering everything from probate to wills to liquid assets, it helps readers determine the best course of action as an executor.

Updates to this edition include:
New information on wills
New types of bank accounts, such as pay-on death accounts
The Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997
The increasingly common use of trusts
All state and federal laws, in texts and tables..
Price: $25.44 [Notify me when price goes down.]

A step-by-step guide to settling a loved one's estate.

Being an executor or personal representative is no easy task. For many, the job comes at a time of high emotion and is something that has never been done before. The Complete Executor's Guidebook is here to help ease this troubling time and make this overwhelming task manageable.

It gives you everything you need to navigate through all the paperwork and responsibility that comes with this role. It takes you step-by-step though all of the legal and financial matters that must be completed and provides you with a plan to timely settle an estate. With it you will feel confident that you are doing everything you need to do, such as:

- Preparing for your role as an executor or trustee
- Making claims for insurance, social security and other benefits
- Understanding the will or trust provisions
- Handling situations when documents are missing
- Going to court
- Dealing with taxes
- Finding your state's laws
- Working with lawyers, accountants, insurance agents and others.
Price: $12.17 [Notify me when price goes down.]

Newly revised and updated, How to Administer an Estate is a step-by-step, self-help resource that guides you through the entire estate and probate process from start to finish, answering every question along the way such as: * What do you need to know before you agree to become an executor? * What needs to be done if a person died without a will? * How do you "open" an estate? * How do you take inventory and distribute an estate's assets? * When is it necessary to call an accountant or lawyer? How to Administer an Estate is complete with great advice, descriptions, and examples of common situations, sample forms, checklists, appendices after each chapter, a glossary, and summaries of the legal requirements in all 50 states..
Price: $9.95 [Notify me when price goes down.]

"This is an engrossing and valuable work for collectors, scholars, and artists, which surveys the lives of important twentieth-century American artists and the management of their accumulated works by widows, families, and dealers. It opens a window into problems of taxes, wills and trusts, the inheritors’ role in conservations, succession and interpretation, and the responsibility for preservation of our visual heritage."—Gerald Nordland, author of Richard Diebenkorn and former director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Milwaukee Art Museum

"A completely new approach—finally we hear from those who look after the paintings and sculptures after the artist dies. Wonderfully eloquent and personal, this book is important, valuable, and totally engrossing."—Flora Biddle, author of The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made and former president and chairman of the Whitney Museum of American Art

"Anyone interested in the art world and the protection of lasting values (in all senses) will be fascinated by this compilation of interviews, each of which is accompanied by a lively selection of photographs of the artist, the studio, and the heir or administrator. All sides of estate legacies issue surface here: studio situations, painting methods, tax issues, personal relations—you feel you know all the artists, freshly."—Mary Ann Caws, Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature, Graduate Center, CUNY

Artists’ Estates offers a fascinating journey into the complex and competitive art world through the distinctive lens of those who deal with the paintings, prints, and sculpture that artists leave behind after their deaths. Bringing together interviews conducted by Magda Salvesen, the widow of the second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter Jon Schueler, this unique book provides a window into the goals and desires, the conflicts and frustrations, and the emotional and financial strains that confront widows, companions, sons, and daughters as the heirs to artists’ estates. The judiciously arranged and edited interviews also address the benefits and liabilities of foundations and trusts through the insights of lawyers, gallery dealers, and foundation directors.

Readers will explore well-known estates, including those of Roy Lichtenstein, Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, Milton Avery, Romare Bearden, and David Smith, as well as the equally intriguing legacies of lesser-known artists whose work came to the fore in the forties and fifties.

Together, the passionate testimonies of families and lovers, the measured voices of art professionals, and the more than eighty photographs offer an indispensable entrée into the private and public worlds of art..
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