1. Selecting Your Estate Planning Goals Part I: Setting Your Goals Part II: Laying the Groundwork Part III: Children Part IV: Wills Part V: Probate and How to Avoid It Part VI: Understanding Estate and Gift Taxes Part VII: Reducing or Eliminating Estate Taxes Part VIII: Imposing Controls Over Property Part IX: Taking Care of Personal Issues Part X: Family Business Estate Planning Part XI: Going Further Part XII: Sample Estate Plans 2. Personal Concerns and Estate Planning 3. Special Property Ownership Rules for Married People 4. Inventorying Your Property 5. Your Beneficiaries 6. Children 7. Wills 8.

Probate and Why You Want to Avoid It 9. Living Trusts 10. Joint Tenancy and Tenancy by the Entirety 11. Pay-on-Death Designations: Bank Accounts, Securities, Stocks and Bonds, and Motor Vehicles 12. Life Insurance 13. Retirement Benefits 14. State Law Exemptions From Normal Probate 15. Estate Taxes 16.

Gifts and Taxes 17. An Overview of Ongoing Trusts 18. Estate Tax-Saving Bypass Trusts 19. Other Estate Tax-Saving Marital Trusts 20. Charitable Trusts 21. Other Estate Tax-Saving Trusts 22. Disclaimers: After-Death Estate Tax Planning 23. Combining Estate Tax-Saving Trusts 24.

Property Control Trusts for Second or Subsequent Marriages 25. Trust and Other Devices for Imposing Controls Over Property 26. Incapacity: Making Medical and Financial Decisions 27. Body and Organ Donation, Funerals, and Burials 28. Family Business Estate Planning 29. Using Lawyers 30. After You Complete Your Estate Plan 31. After a Death Occur 32.

Some Estate Plans Glossary Appendix: State Inheritance Tax Rules Index.