This clear, concise guide from a respected organization renowned for helping older Americans is a great way to learn what you need to know before consulting an attorney about estate planning and protecting your personal legacy.

Shares advice for placing one's own affairs in order pre-death so as to place less of a burden on one's survivors, detailing how to compose a will, advance directive, and powers of attorney notices. The appendices, which constitute the last half of the book, provide sample templates that can be used to put your affairs in order.

"60-Minute Estate Planner simplifies the complicated process of estate planning, covering what kind of information readers need to gather before they can begin. Packed with helpful forms, charts, and worksheets, the book shows readers how to: communicate with heirs; manage medical decisions and provide for the special needs of the young and old; reduce, defer, and eliminate as much gift, estate, inheritance, and other tax as possible; use estate planning...

A customized resource to twenty-first-century estate planning cites the flaws in typical will processes while making key recommendations on such topics as protecting a child's inheritance in the event of a divorce and avoiding death taxes.