Introduction 1 Part 1: Getting Started with Estate Planning 5 Chapter 1: Congratulations: You Have an Estate! 7 Chapter 2: Bean Counting: Figuring Out What You're Worth 33 Part 2: Where There's a Will, There's a Way 45 Chapter 3: Understanding the Basics of Wills 47 Chapter 4: Tied Hands and Helping Hands: What You Can and Can't Do with Your Will 69 Chapter 5: Probate: Top of the Ninth Inning for Your Estate 83 Chapter 6: Dodging Probate: Saving Time and Money with a Will Substitute 101 Part 3: Matters of Trust 119 Chapter 7: Understanding Trusts 121 Chapter 8: Trusts You May Want to Trust -- or Not 137 Chapter 9: Working a Trust into Your Estate Plan 149 Part 4: Life, Death, and Taxes 159 Chapter 10: Preparing for the Tug-of-War with the Taxman 161 Chapter 11: The Gift Tax: Isn't Giving a Gift Enough? 171 Chapter 12: Skipping around the Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax 187 Chapter 13: Paying or Not Paying the Death Tax: That's the Question 197 Chapter 14: Planning to Minimize All Your Estate-Related Taxes 211 Part 5: Estate Planning for Family Businesses 229 Chapter 15: Grasping the Basics of Estate Planning for Family Businesses 231 Chapter 16: Transferring Ownership and Paying Estate Taxes in a Family Business 251 Part 6: Crafting a Comprehensive Estate Plan 267 Chapter 17: Factoring Insurance into Your Estate Plan 269 Chapter 18: Connecting Your Retirement Funds to Your Estate Plans 293 Chapter 19: Estate Planning in Exceptional Situations 313 Part 7: The Part of Tens 337 Chapter 20: Ten Questions to Get You Rolling on Your Estate Plan 339 Chapter 21: Avoiding Ten Common Mistakes and Problems in Your Will 345 Chapter 22: Ten Crucial Estate-Planning Questions 351 Index 359.