Estate Planning and Administration in Illinois, 4th (Illinois Practice Series, Vol. 17-20)

Availability:

Partial stock

(details)

Email this page

100005282

Book - hardbound (Full set)

$817.00

Book - hardbound (Individual volumes)

Monthly pricing (What's this?)

$60.00/month

For the statutes, cases, forms, checklists, and commentary you need to oversee your clients' estates, choose Estate Planning and Administration in Illinois. This title includes current probate rules, statutory changes, current state decisions, and state and federal regulations, to facilitate research. In addition to an entire volume providing comprehensive coverage of elder law, this publication covers such topics as:

Estate planning
Decedents' estates
Minors' estates
Wills and will contests
Trusts
Taxation
Life insurance
Power of attorney

Features of this publication include:

Set streamlines research and document preparation because all information, including forms, is together
Forms ensure accuracy, completeness, and proper terminology
Helpful checklists aid in organization and in ensuring completeness of information
You'll have the benefit of an expert's opinions, strategies, and experience

Summary of contents
Replacement pages

Volume 17
Chapter
1. The Estate Planning Process
2. The Estate Planning Advisors
3. The Lawyer's Services In Estate Planning
4. The Services Of Financial Institutions
5. The Lawyer's Duties And Probate Proceedings In Estate Planning
6. Effective Estate Planning
7. The Well–Balanced Estate Plan
8. Gathering And Analyzing The Information
9. Problems In Projecting The Plan To Death And Beyond
10. Generation Skipping
11. Domicile And The Conflict Of Laws
12. Planning For Special Situations And Problems
13. Special Problems In Small And Moderate Estates
14. Estate Planning To Minimize Or Avoid Estate Taxes
15. Estate Planning For The Handicapped And Disabled Adults
16. Estate Planning For The Executive And Professional Person
17. Estate Planning For The Farmer
18. Estate Planning For Women
19. Post Mortem Estate Planning
20. [Reserved]
21. [Reserved]
22. [Reserved]
23. The Client
24. The Client's Probable Heirship
25. The Client's Spouse
26. The Valid Marriage
27. Separation And Annulment, And Separation Agreements
28. Dissolution Of Marriage (Divorce)
29. Other Matrimonial Problems
30. The Client's Descendants
31. The Care And Support Of Children
32. The Custody Of Minor Children
33. Legal Problems Created By Adoption
34. Children Born Out Of Wedlock (Illegitimates)
35. The Other Objects Of The Client's Bounty
36. The Common Ownership Of Property
37. Joint Tenancies And Tenancies By The Entireties
38. Payable On Death Accounts
39. Life Estates
40. Future Interests In Property
41. Powers Of Appointment
42. Contracts, Agreements And Conveyances
43. The Client's Investment Program
44. Cash, Savings And Government Bonds
45. Corporate Stocks And Bonds
46. Mutual Funds
47. Real Estate In The Plan
48. Holding And Conveying Title To Real Estate
49. Partition, Foreclosure, And Eminent Domain
50. Real Estate Investments
51. The Land Trust
52. The Farm As An Investment
53. Other Investments
54. Starting A New Business
55. Partnerships
56. Organizing The Close Corporation
57. The Professional Corporation
58. Problems Of Operating The Closely Held Corporations
59. Providing For Business Control And Continuation
60. The Buy–Sell Agreement
61. Rights Of Stockholders
62. Selling Or Liquidating The Close Corporation
63. [Reserved]
64. Employment As Part Of The Estate Plan
65. [Reserved]
66. [Reserved]
67. [Reserved]
68. [Reserved]
69. The Life Insurance Contract
70. Kinds Of Life Insurance
71. Getting The Most Out Of Life Insurance
72. Gifts In The Estate Plan
73. Presumptions About Gifts Of Property
74. [Reserved]
75. Fraudulent Gifts And Transfers
76. Charitable Gifts
77. Dangerous And Ineffective Estate Planning “Tools”
78. Fraud, Duress And Undue Influence And Other Improper Conduct
79. Reducing The Impact Of Claims, Losses And Estate Depletion
80. Planning For Debtors And Financially Distressed
81. Dealing With Problems Caused By Sickness And Accident
82. [Reserved]
83. [Reserved]
84. [Reserved]
Volume 18
1. When a Person Dies
2. Steps Immediately Following a Death
3. When a Beneficiary Causes the Death or Has Inflicted Other Wrongs
4. Avoiding Probate
5. Small Estates Procedures
6. The Probate Process
7. The Probate Judge and the Probate Court
8. The Attorney in Probate Proceedings
9. Administration to Collect
10. Protecting the Property of the Missing Person
11. Summary Administration
12. Independent Administration
13. The Decedent's Heirship
14. Simultaneous Deaths and Common Catastrophes
15. Missing Heirs and Escheating Property
16. Oath and Bond of Personal Representative
17. Liability of Sureties on the Bond
18. Opening the Interstate Estate
19. The Public Administrator and Guardian
20. Probating the Will
21. Proving the Will
22. Admitting the Will to Probate and Appointing the Representative
23. The Guardian Ad Litem
24. Probate of a Foreign Will
25. Probating an Estate on Presumption of Death
26. Probating the Lost Will
27. The Duties of the Representative
28. The Rights and Obligations of Third Persons Dealing with a Fiduciary
29. The Fiduciary Transfer of Securities Act
30. The Inventory of Probate Assets
31. The Representative's Books, Accounts and Records
32. [Reserved]
33. Investments in Decedent's Estate
34. Handling the Decedent's Personal Estate
35. Handling the Decedent's Real Estate
36. Sale, Lease or Mortgage of Decedent's Real Estate
37. Clearing Title to Decedent's Real Estate
38. Disposing of Decedent's Partnership Interests
39. Disposing of Other Business Interests
40. Dealing with the Decedent's Insurance and Other Benefits
41. Ancillary Administration for Nonresidents of Illinois
42. The Powers of a Foreign Representative in Illinois
43. The Illinois Decedent's Property in Other States
44. Rights of Surviving Spouse and Children
45. Renouncing the Will
46. Election and Estoppel
47. Lapse
48. Ademptions, Advancements, Release of Inheritance and Accretions
49. Debts and Other Financial Problems in the Estate
50. Claims Against Decedents' Estates
51. Kinds and Classes of Claims Against Estates
52. Hearing, Allowing and Disallowing Claims
53. Payment of Claims
54. Exoneration
55. Equitable Apportionment
56. Citation Proceedings
57. The Personal Liability of the Representative
58. Revoking the Letters of Office
59. Disclaimers
60. The Construction of Wills
61. Will Construction Proceedings
62. The Cy Pres Doctrine
63. Compensation Of The Attorney And The Representative
64. Contempt Procedures in Probate Court
65. Preparing to Close the Estate
66. Accounts and Reports of Representatives
67. Hearing on Accounts
68. Distributing the Estate
69. Reopening the Estate
70. Appealing Probate Orders
71. The Decedent's Final Tax Obligations
72. The Decedent's Final Federal Income Tax Return
73. Federal Income Taxes on Estates and Trusts
74. Illinois Income Taxes
75. Illinois Tax on Trust and Estate Income
76. The Illinois Estate Tax and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax
77. Other Taxes in Illinois
78. [Reserved]
79. [Reserved]
80. [Reserved]
81. Handling Minors' Estates Without Guardianship
82. Gifts and Other Transfers to Minors
83. The Guardianship Proceeding
84. Selecting and Appointing the Guardian
85. Short-Term and Standby Guardians
86. The Activities of the Guardian
87. Dealing with the Minor's Property
88. Reports and Terminating the Guardianship
89. [Reserved]
90. [Reserved]
91. [Reserved]
Volume 19
1. The Need for a Will
2. The Nature of a Will
3. Making a Valid Will
4. Basic Forms of Wills
5. Joint, Mutual, and Reciprocal Wills
6. Drafting the Will
7. Payment of Debts and Taxes
8. Bequests in the Will
9. Devises in the Will
10. Will Provisions for Descendants
11. Bequests to Church, Charity and Corporations
12. Class Gifts
13. Conditions and Restrictions on Bequests and Devises
14. Drafting Testamentary Trusts
15. Drafting Charitable Trusts
16. The Residuary Clause
17. Selecting the Executor
18. The Powers of the Executor
19. Special Will Drafting Problems
20. The Rule Against Perpetuities and Unreasonable Accumulations
21. Keeping the Will Far-Sighted
22. Executing the Will
23. Publication and Attestation of the Will
24. The Mental Capacity of the Testator
25. Fraud, Duress, and Undue Influence in Executing the Will
26. The Contest-Prone Will
27. After the Will Is Signed
28. Codicils
29. Alteration and Revocation of a Will
30. Revival and Republication of Will
31. Will Contests
32. The Contest of the Denial of Admission of Will to Probate
33. Grounds for Contesting a Will
34. Procedures in Will Contests
35. Evidence in Will Contests
36. Jury Instructions, Verdicts and Judgments in Will Contests
37. The Kinds and Uses of Trusts
38. Creating and Amending a Valid Express Trust
39. The Trust Property and Estates and Interests Therein
40. The Trust Beneficiaries
41. The Trustee
42. The Powers of the Trustee
43. The Duties and Liabilities of the Trustee
44. The Compensation of the Trustee
45. Drafting Trusts and Special Trust Provisions
46. Using the Living Trust
47. Managing and Investing the Trust Property
48. Principal and Income Problems
49. [Reserved]
50. The Construction, Modification and Rescission of Trusts
51. Court Control and Supervision of Trusts
52. Court Appointment and Removal of Trustees
53. Terminating and Distributing the Trust
54. The Illinois Lawyer As a Federal and State Tax Planner
55. Income Tax Pitfalls
56. Taxation of Capital Gains and Losses
57. Basis
58. Life Insurance and Annuities
59. Exclusion of Gain on Disposition of Principal Residences
60. Intra-Family Transactions
61. Individual Retirement Accounts and Simple Plans
62. Pension and Profit Sharing Plans
63. The Taxation of Partnerships
64. The Taxation of Corporations
65. Tax-Free Incorporation
66. The Subchapter S Corporation
67. Section 302 and 303 Stock Redemptions
68. Corporate Reorganizations
69. Corporate Liquidations
70. The Federal Estate Tax
71. Generation-Skipping Transfer (GST) Tax
72. The Federal Gift Tax
73. [Reserved]
74. [Reserved]
75. [Reserved]
Table of Law and Rules
Table of Cases
Index

Enter replacement volume, chapter and page numbers separated by commas. For example: Volume 2, Chapter 5, Pages 7, 12-19. Please limit requests to 25 pages or less. If you are located outside the United States or for more than 25 pages please contact Customer Service 1-800-328-4880.

* Denotes required fields

Replacement pages *

First name *

Last name *

Country *

Organization name

E-mail *

Phone *

West account *

Address *

P.O. Box

City *

State *

ZIP *