Wills, Probate, & Inheritance Tax For Dummies

Wills, Probate & amp
 Inheritance Tax For Dummies, 2nd Edition
 About the Author
 Dedication
 Author\'s Acknowledgements
 Contents at a Glance
 Table of Contents
 Introduction
 About This Book
 Conventions Used in This Book
 What You\'re Not to Read
 Foolish Assumptions
 How This Book Is Organised
 Icons Used In This Book
 Where to Go From Here
 Part I: Planning Your Will
 Chapter 1: Preparing for the Inevitable
 Recognising the Advantages of Putting Your Estate in Order
 Plotting Your Estate Strategy
 Gearing Up for the Probate Challenge
 Launching Your Strategy: The Checklist. Chapter 2: Recognising the Benefits of Making a WillThe Circle of Life: Events to Prompt You into Will-Writing
 Making a Will with Your Spouse
 Considering Who Can\'t Make a Will
 Understanding the Consequences of Dying without a Will
 Modern Life: Intestacy Isn\'t Geared Up for It!
 Looking at the Different Rules in Scotland
 Chapter 3: Totting Up the Value of Your Estate
 An Estate: Isn\'t That a Place in the Country?
 Understanding Why You Need to Do the Sums
 Dishing Out the Dosh with Aplomb
 Calculating the Value of Your Assets
 What on Earth Are Chattels? Looking at Moveable Possessions. Honey, I Shrunk the Estate! Factoring in Time and DebtThe Grand Total: Your Net Worth
 Chapter 4: Deciding Who Gets What
 Who You Have to Include in Your Will
 Assessing What Everyone Should Have
 Gift Failure and How to Prevent It
 Playing the Philanthropist
 Gifting to Cut the Tax Bill
 Chapter 5: Leaving Your Home in Your Will
 Giving the Mortgage Lender a Piece of the Pie
 Understanding How Ownership Affects Your Bequest
 Leaving Your Buy-to-Let Property in Your Will
 The Other Side of the Fence: The Tenants\' Story
 Writing Your Home into Your Will
 Putting Your Faith in Trusts. Part II: Writing Your WillChapter 6: Choosing the Right People to Follow Your Wishes
 Considering the People Who Make Your Will Work
 The Big Cheese: The Executor
 A Matter of Faith: Trustees
 Protecting Your Children: Guardians
 The Eyes Have It: Witnesses
 Considering Getting Expert Help
 Calling in the Professionals
 Going Solo: Using a Will Kit
 Keeping Your Will Safe
 Chapter 7: Getting It in Writing: Drawing Up Your Will
 Choosing Your Materials
 Taking Care of Preliminaries
 Giving Your Executors Elbow-Room
 Detailing Who Gets What
 Passing the Finishing Line: Signing Your Will. Getting Your Will WitnessedChapter 8: Fine-Tuning Your Will
 Powering Up Your Executors
 Clinging on to a Survivorship Clause
 On One Condition: Putting Stipulations in Your Will
 Protecting Your Will Against Challenges
 Getting to Grips with Power of Attorney
 Chapter 9: Ringing the Changes: When and How to Change a Will
 Love Changes Everything ... Even Your Will
 Having Children: Sleepless Nights and Altered Wills
 Correcting Mistakes in Your Unsigned Will
 Changing a Beneficiary
 Snip, Snip: Cutting Someone Out of Your Will
 Changing Financial Circumstances
 Appointing New Appointees.