- Paperback: 480 pages
- Publisher: HarperBusiness; Revised edition (July 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060936312
- ISBN-13: 978-0060936310
- Product Dimensions: 20.7 x 13.5 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,582,130 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Discusses estate planning and how to provide for the family fairly and equitably, facilitate charitable giving, and avoid probate.
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Invaluable for Estate Planning!
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We know you will find BEYOND THE GRAVE absolutely invaluable. It is the only book in America that tells you how to recognize and resolve the most common family inheritance problems. As we say in our book: Your children may be perfect...your children may love each other...but when it comes to dividing the money, it's a whole new ballgame.
We wrote BEYOND THE GRAVE in an easy-to-read "Ann Landers" style "Q & A" format. In fact, Ms. Landers devoted an entire column to our book, which we understand she does with books only once or twice a year.
The public has enthusiastically embraced BEYOND THE GRAVE, and it is now the best-selling family inheritance book in America.
We strongly believe that recognizing an inheritance problem before it occurs is 95% of its solution. BEYOND THE GRAVE offers 45 chapters on every inheritance issue, including the following:
*The First One to Mom's House After Her Funeral Wins.
*You Really Don't Know Your Children--Until They Divide Their Inheritance.
*If You Don't Want the Blame--Treat Your Children the Same.
*After You Child Inherits--Will It Be There for Your Grandchild?
*Are Your Children Spending Their Inheritance--And You're Not Dead Yet?
*There's No Place Like Home--Until Your Children Fight Over It After You DIe.
*Protecting Your Surviving Spouse's Ownership and Control of the Family Money.
*How to Leave More to Your Children and Grandchildren and Less to the IRS
*How Can I Get My Parents to Do Something?
*Preventing Your Money from Ending Up with Your Spouse's Bowling Instructor.
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Format:Paperback
The first rule of estate planning might be: Don't ever die. The second rule: If you can't follow the first rule, plan ahead. If you have wealth that will be around longer than you are, spend some serious time thinking about who's going to get it when you go.
I am a professional money manager and the subject of inheritance planning is something I deal with every day. But "Beyond the Grave" opened my eyes to some potential problems and solutions that I hadn't thought of. And after some soul-searching, the book prompted me to change the way I will leave my own estate to my family.
I love the way the authors filled their book not with legal jargon but with stories of their clients. Some did things the right way, others made mistakes. But the lawyers learned from every case, and thanks to this book, I learned too.
Any parent who's disappointed at a son or daughter could take delight in the story called "Our Rotten Children" in which a couple accomplished their own goals - and some of their children's goals - in a most unexpected way. The two married sons and a daughter seemed to be waiting around for their parents to die so they could collect sizeable inheritances from the parents' $30 million real estate empire.
The parents devised a clever inheritance plan to force their chronically unemployed offspring to "get a life." Without spoiling the story I can relate that one result showed up almost immediately: the two daughters-in-law filed for divorce, figuring that - if there was no seven- or eight-figure inheritance in their future - they had little reason to stick with their ne'er-do-well husbands.
The authors repeatedly demonstrate the merits of what I think could be called "smart generosity" to children and grandchildren. In anecdote after anecdote, they show the benefits of treating siblings equally and of thinking ahead of time about how to preserve not only assets but family relationships and harmony as well.
If you have wealth to leave, I can almost guarantee you'll find an interesting idea or two in this book that you haven't thought about. If your parents haven't talked to you about their own plan, you might consider giving them a copy of "Beyond the Grave."
Format:Paperback
This is an American book with particular advice for Americans on the laws, tax and trusts of that country. Nonetheless it contains a lot of sound advice about how to plan ahead and about communication between family members which would be very useful wherever you live. I am glad I bought it.
Format:Paperback
I have been looking for a book like this for a while and stumbled across it in the public library. I read it cover to cover in a couple of hours. Easy to read, yet so full of practical info you will be dog-earing each page. I am in my late thirties and have learned so much that I plan to give this book to my parents. The real life scenarios make you think. You'll get wonderful ideas as to how to structure your own inheritance plan and how to approach your parents and help them get the information they need.
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A Well-Written Legal Book in <gasp!> Plain English
I'm a lawyer and an editor, and I have high praise for this book. It covers the breadth of a subject that touches ALL people (and confuses many of them) and -- bless you, Messrs. Read more
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excellent resource for dealing with difficult subject
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This is a book every parent should read
I'm an estate planning attorney and I enthusiastically reccomend this book. It explains things in plain English, and explains why many things that seem like good ideas will not... Read more
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