Beyond the Grave - Softcover

Condon, Gerald M.; Condon, Jeffery L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887307973 ISBN 13: 9780887307973

Publisher: HarperPB, 1995

Synopsis

A loved one's death is painful enough. Why should your survivors suffer more by squabbling over their inheritance? Beyond the Grave is the first book to show you how to:

• Prevent common family bickering that arises when parents die
• Protect your child's inheritance from an ex-spouse, creditor, cult, or addiction
• Compel your children to share their inheritance when they couldn't share their toys
• Divide the family home without dividing your family
• Protect your surviving spouse from pushy kids, greedy caretakers, and charming cheats
• Leave more to your family and less to Uncle Sam
• Prevent a charity from using your donation to buy Cadillacs for its executives

Beyond the Grave factors human nature into estate planning, with common sense and "tough love" advice for making tough but loving decisions concerning the welfare of our survivors through life -- and beyond death. It's a must-have, before it's too late.

About this title

About the Author:

Gerald M. Condon, Esq.(right), a noted trusts and estates lawyer, practices law with his son and coauthor Jeffrey L. Condon, Esq.(left), at Condon, Condon & Festa, based in Santa Monica, California.

Jeffrey L. Condon, Esq. has been practicing in trust, estate, and probate law since 1987 at the Law Offices of Condon & Condon in Santa Monica, California. He is also the author of The Living Trust Advisor and has conducted over three hundred family-inheritance-planning talks and seminars throughout the United States for numerous businesses, financial institutions, charities, brokerage firms, insurance companies, social clubs, and service organizations.

From Booklist:

Almost all books on estate planning explain how to maximize inheritance, minimize taxes, avoid probate, set up trusts, etc. The Condons, father and son lawyers, do this, too, but what they also do is consider the psychological and emotional aspects of leaving and inheriting money. Presenting more scenarios than a season full of made-for-television movies, the Condons cover such possibilities as "protecting" the inheritance from one's child's spouse, preventing squabbles over inherited property, selecting trustees or guardians, avoiding disputes between second spouses and children of one's first marriage, leaving money for pets, etc. With good sense, humor, and authority, the authors provide a thorough look at inheritance planning with an eye toward maintaining good, stable family relations well after the estate has been settled. David Rouse

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperPB
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0887307973
• ISBN 13: 9780887307973
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384