Our Estate Planning Series is designed to furnish a huge amount of valuable information for every adult in America, whether young or old, rich or poor, healthy or disabled.

Yet, we have become keenly aware, over a lifetime of working with everyone of every kind and description, of the immense diversity among us. It is a cliche to say that no two of us are alike.

We have recognized that fact by providing separate books for people who have certain types of problems. For example, many of the estate planning problems of young adults differ from those of their grandparents. As the titles of the books in the Series indicate, some of the books apply to your problems and some do not.

We have selected the contents of each book in the Series so that the major problems of a particular group are considered. As a result, readers don't have to buy or wade through a lot of information that has nothing to do with their problems. At the same time, it is easy to skip any portion of any of our books that is of no interest to you.

In our books, we put special emphasis on legal problems, even though our subjects relate to all the aspects of getting older, retiring, and living in retirement. That is because of my background over many years as a probate judge, author, practicing estate planning and elder care lawyer, and publisher. More important, though, is the fact that, other than health and medical issues, our legal rights and obligations are the greatest source of problems, as well as their solutions, in our lives.

Billions are spent by governments and individuals every year to pay the expenses of building and maintaining the health of our citizens, and caring for those who are sick. Billions more are spent by the government to pay the expenses of prosecuting criminal cases. That includes all the legal expenses of the defendants, excepting for those few who can afford to pay their own lawyers.

True, the rich pay their lawyers dearly for their estate planning, tax advice, litigation expenses, and defense of white collar crimes. Yet, only a pitifully small amount is available to families with low or medium income, to provide the solutios to the infinite number of their legal problems, including their lawsuits, Legal assistance is expensive. Only the wealthy can afford to consult their lawyers every time a legal question arises. Just about everyone who is not on a corporate expense account has be very careful in running up their legal bills. Even the middle class regularly consult a lawyer only when they deem a legal question to be very important.

At this time, there are pitifully few reliable books that are designed to answer the infinite number of legal problems that can confront any one of us any day of the week. The Estate Planning Series is written to help fill that enormous gap.