Living Trusts for Everyone, Ronald Farrington Sharp
Living Trusts for Everyone, Ronald Farrington Sharp
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Living Trusts for Everyone
Why a Will Is Not the Way to Avoid Probate, Protect Heirs, and Settle Estates (Second Edition)

Author: Ronald Farrington Sharp

Narrator: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Unabridged: 4 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/19/2018

Categories: Nonfiction, Law

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Living Trusts for Everyone is the best resource for setting up a living trust. Explaining in specific terms what benefits a trust will have, Ronald Farrington Sharp gives the tools necessary to set up a loved one's trust with no lawyers and no expense.

Wills benefit lawyers. Trusts benefit the clients. Too often lawyers sell wills to clients only to sit back and wait to sell their probate services to their clients' heirs. Ronald Farrington Sharp describes the best way to handle modern estate planning and details the many advantages trusts have over wills in not only eliminating probate but in also protecting your assets for your heirs. Sharp explains why legal services are not needed to do the clerical work in settling a trust after death. This updated edition includes new information on an array of subjects, including: elimination of the federal estate tax for most estates due to increased exemption amounts; online assets; the use of passwords, usernames, and websites; keeping trustees honest and the process of removing trustees for malfeasance; forms for simplifying the planning process; and strategies to lower attorneys' fees.

With no legal jargon, just step-by-step instructions and sample form letters, Living Trusts for Everyone takes the mystery out of the process of setting up a trust.

About Ronald Farrington Sharp

Ronald Farrington Sharp is an attorney who concentrated on family law and divorce for the first half of his career before gradually shifting the focus of his practice to the areas of trusts, estate planning, and probate. The firm he established in 1975 works closely on a referral basis with a variety of professionals in developing a comprehensive estate plan package. Sharp has personally prepared more than three thousand trusts and estate plans, and he is also the author of Winning the Divorce War. He is married, has three adult children and one grandchild, and divides his time between Michigan and Florida.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jay on May 19, 2015

I read this right after finishing J.K. Lasser’s recent estate planning book, so it makes it easy to compare. The Lasser book’s coverage of living trusts runs about a quarter of the book, with the rest of the book dealing with both more basic concepts (like basic retirement planning) and more advance......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on January 10, 2024

Too much good info to absorb in one go. I'm going to read this one over and over!......more

Goodreads review by J on January 21, 2015

Ok. Good explanation of trusts vs wills and why you would want one over the other (hint: he thinks most people benefit from a trust). The preface is a great 5 min summary for the whole book but it's a fast read. The appendixes, especially with the checklist for heirs to enact the trust and recover f......more

Goodreads review by Rodney Shae Andrews on July 29, 2021

I found this book to be super informative and helpful. Recognize that this isn’t going to teach you how to make your own trust and all the legal documents to set it up. Estate law is an entire field unto itself and one little book isn’t going to make you an expert. I did feel like it gave a very sol......more

Goodreads review by Andres J on August 25, 2019

A short, worthwhile and informative book that everyone can benefit from. Once set up properly, estate trusts are relatively easy to execute and significantly reduce probate costs that are attributed mostly to otherwise unavoidable and costly attorney fees. With trusts, and unlike with wills, many of......more