Planning for Estates and Administration in Michigan (Michigan Practice Library)

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For every stage of the estate planning process in Michigan, this exhaustive multiple-volume set offers in-depth discussion and step-by-step guidance in matters of taxation and substantive law. Topics covered include intestate and testate succession, probate, trusts, gifts, insurance, guardians and conservators, and community property and taxation.

Features

Expanded coverage of effective tax strategies, including those for partnerships and limited liability companies
Explanations of the issues surrounding transfer taxes, the marital deduction, and living wills
Model documents for the preparation of wills and trusts, plus optional clauses
Helpful charts and checklists on every topic
Extensive cross-references to topics in the set, as well as to outside resources

Summary of contents

Chapter
1. Rights and Duties by Virtue of an Individual's Status
2. Claims Against the Probate Estate
3. Interstate Succession
4. Spouse's Inheritance Protection
5. Children's Inheritance Protection
6. Testate Succession
7. Succession to Decedent's Vehicles
8. Formal Administration of Decedent's Estate
9. Independent Probate
10. Disappeared Persons and Their Estates
11. Introduction, Scope and History of Trusts
12. Survey of important Advantages in the Use of Trusts
13. Creation and Validity of Private Express Trusts
14. Inter Vivos Trusts and Effect Thereof Upon Rights of Settlor and Surviving Spouse
15. Principal and Income
16. Construction of Trusts
17. Modifying, Reforming and Settling aside Trusts
18. Termination of a Trust
19. Special Trusts and Trust Provisions
20. Beneficiaries of a Private Express Trust
21. Trustees
22. Gifts
23. Protection of Persons Under Disability and Their Property
24. Guardians and Conservators
25. Powers
26. Concurrent Estates and Joint Bank Accounts
27. Deeds
28. Insurance and Annuities
29. Employee Benefits
30. Post-Mortem Planning
31. Business Interests
32. Abandonment and Escheat
33. Possessory Estates
34. Future Interests
35. Restraints on Alienation
36. Community Property
37. Condominiums
38. Role of Judicial System
39. Michigan Law of Taxation
40. Federal, Estate, Gift, and Generation-Skipping Taxes
41. Federal and Michigan Constitutional Constraints
42. Creditors' Rights
43. Estate Planning Practice
44. Conflicts
45. Decedent's Remains
46. Divorce
47. Foundations, Charities, and Other Nonprofit Organizations
48. Selected Statutes of Limitations
49. The Right to Die
50. Probate Litigation
51. Foreign Trust Taxation
52. Estate Planning Using Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESPOs)
53. Non-Traditional Estate Planning
82 Appendices
Estates and Protected Individuals Code
Probate Court Rules
Table of Laws and Rules
Table of Cases
Index