Estate & Trust Administration For Dummies

This authoritative, plain-English guide helps you understand andfollow the rules that govern estates and trusts, ensure a smoothtransfer of property, and manage fiduciary affairs in an orderlymanner. You’ll get help choosing and assembling a team ofprofessional advisors, settling debts and paying bequests,operating a revocable or irrevocable trust, and making sound trustinvestment decisions. Discover how to:

• Understand executors’ and trustees’ duties
• Read and interpret important documents
• Properly execute an estate or trust
• Handle estates both large and small
• Get familiar with the probate process and estate taxes
• Identify different types of trusts
• Follow the deceased’s wishes — and the law
• Notify insurers and employers of a death
• Follow the steps for closing an estate
• Establish, fund, and change ownership of a trust
• Keep proper trust records

Yes, you can do the job and do it well. All you need is a littlehelp from Estate and Trust Administration ForDummies.