The Estate Planning Series now consists of seven books. All cover various aspects
of estate planning and/or elder law. To get the titles and information about
each of them, click on the title on the list to the left.
One of our principal objectives is to bring to every adult American the information
they all need to plan their remaining years. Therefore, the volumes are designed
so that each gives you as much information as possible. They are organized so
that they will be useful to various groups of readers, depending on their age
and other factors.
These books are entirely different in many ways from any book you have purchased
before. If you want to know more about our extensive use of the unexplored capabilities
of the Internet, Click on An Entirely New Kind of Book.
We have written all the books of this entire Series for a vast audience of
Americans who hunger to find affordable answers to their infinite number of
questions about the law. If you would like to know more about the way we are
achieving this important objective, Click On The People We Have Written These
Books For.
The Concept of the Estate Planning Series
Many important things have happened to families in the past few decades. Life
expectancy has soared, but so have medical and care expenses. We have a whole
new set of opportunities, but they are accompanied by some real headaches.
People need to plan and work for an old age as free as possible from all the
downsides of aging. At the same time, they want to provide an adequate estate
that permits them to live comfortably, without financial worries, the rest of
their lives.
People need to plan, too, so that their property will be well managed and
securely invested, regardless what may happen to them in the future. Also, they
need to complete their estate plans so that their remaining property will go
to the right people, in the right shares, and for the right purposes.
Traditionally, estate planning has been considered to be simply a matter of
drawing up a will, and perhaps a power of attorney, and buying a life insurance
policy. We take a much broader view.
We believe that all the problems of preparing for the rest of our lives are
so tightly intertwined that they must be regarded and planned for as one big
plan.
In preparing for our old age, we are concerned with many legal questions [the
traditional scope of estate planning], we also need to be considering all the
aspects of building both our fiscal fitness and our physical fitness. They all
work together.
It is now apparent that making a success of our last years depends on doing
the right things and taking the right actions to perfect all the steps necessary
to have in place and working: (1) a good set of legal documents and plans to
answer the legal problems, (2) a good set of practices in creating and building
a satisfactory estate, and (3) a good set of living practices that will enable
us to maximize our health and minimize our sickness and costs of illness.
It is this huge set of problems [and their answers] that we consider the proper
scope of true estate planning. A great difference between us and most people
who write on the subject of estate planning is that we believe that this entire
process is the process of "estate planning." Actually, estate planning
is much, much more than drafting a few legal documents.
It is with this concept constantly before us that we have designed the Estate
Planning Series. It contains valuable information about wills and estates, but
it has far more. It seeks to give extensive information on all the aspects of
preparing for and living the remaining years of our lives.
It's a huge order. We've been working on it for many years. We stepped up
our efforts when the World Wide Web was introduced about a decade ago.
How We Keep Our Prices So Low
We do not have printing and binding expenses and do not have to pay expensive
book publishers, printers, binders, etc., to prepare the books. Also, we do
not have to store an inventory, nor do we have any billing or shipping expenses.
Thus, we are able to pass these savings along to you in the form of much lower
prices. We are determined to make it possible for everyone, even those who are
on the tightest budgets, to get information they so badly need.
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