Quicken Willmaker Plus 2008 Edition: Estate Planning Essentials (Book with CD-ROM) | 
| Author: Editors Of Nolo
Publisher: NOLO
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 55020
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4th
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 556
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 7 x 1.5
ISBN: 1413307167
Dewey Decimal Number: 346.73052
EAN: 9781413307160
Publication Date: October 1, 2007
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Product Description
America's No. 1 estate planning book with interactive CD-ROM software helps you create a will, living trust, living will -- and much more .
Help protect your family and your assets, and save on legal fees! Quicken WillMaker Plus Estate Planning Essential 2008 Edition provides the legal forms you need. So comprehensive, the CD-ROM assembles your forms from among 40,000 document possibilities -- but so easy to use, you'll have them finished in minutes.
Quicken WillMaker Plus Estate Planning Essential 2008 Edition includes a full "health care power of attorney." Dictate the health care you wish to receive if you can't speak for yourself, and be assured that your loved ones won't have to second-guess themselves!
Create your own:
Will
Living Trusts, including an AB Trust
Health Care Directive:
Living Will
Health Care Power of Attorney
Financial Powers of Attorney
Final arrangements document
Important documents for executors
The CD-ROM also provides forms you can use every day, such as authorizations and agreements, child and elder care forms, promissory notes and documents to help you repair your credit.
For each document, Quicken WillMaker Plus Estate Planning Essentials 2008 Edition takes you through a step-by-step interview. Your documents will automatically reflect the laws of your state. If you have any questions, simply check out the comprehensive onscreen legal manual. Expert tech support is also available.
Need to know more? Here are in-depth details about what you can do with Quicken WillMaker Plus Estate Planning Essentials 2008 Edition:
Your Will
Provide for family, friends and charities. Name a personal guardian to care for young children. Specify the executor (or "personal representative") of your estate. Select a trusted person to manage property left to young people. Revise and update your will whenever you like.
Your Living Trust
Make a basic trust, whether you're married or single. If married, you can create a AB trust (or bypass trust) and spare your heirs from potentially heavy estate taxes. Create subtrusts for minor children and young adults. Name custodians for property left to children. Change or revoke your trust at any time.
Your Health Care Directive lets people who care for you make important decisions about your life and health when you can't. Create a:
Health Care Power of Attorney Permit a loved one to make important medical decisions for you if you are unable to do so yourself.
Living Will
Specify whether you want your life prolonged through artificial means. Appoint someone to make sure your wishes are carried out.
Your Financial Power of Attorney
Name someone to make your financial decisions, in case you are medically incapacitated. Don't worry, you can grant as much authority as you wish.
Your Final Arrangements
Plan a funeral or other ceremony. Clarify whether you want a cremation or burial. Select someone to oversee your final arrangements -- and more!
Documents for Your Executor
Make sure your executor ("personal representative" in some states) has all the forms and instructions he or she needs to do the job: Checklists, letters, notices, claim forms -- and more.
Personal Finance Documents
Over a dozen forms that let you handle financial situations you might face on any given day, such as disputing a credit card charge, lending or borrowing money to friends or family, creating bills of sale -- and more!
Home & Family Documents
Whether you need to authorize someone to travel with your child to another country, want to lend your car to a friend, or create an agreement with a trusted person to take care of your elderly parent, Quicken WillMaker Plus can handle all these family situations -- and many more! Estate planning documents not valid in Louisiana.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 67 more reviews...
 EAsy to use and appears to be really complete December 2, 2008
I am at the age where a will and living will are more important and decided it was time to get working on them. I got Willmaker the other day and in just a few minutes had a draft of a living will and am well on my way to having a will in place. There is some confusion on how to set up my step-children in my will, but the descriptions and the included book assure me I'll get the help I need to accomplish it. Basically it goes step-by-step, asking questions as you go along until you are done - VERY simple to use. This software/book combination will allow you to file numerous legal documents including Bill of Sales, Power of Attorney and Medical care requests. Heck, it even allows you to leave your money to your cat if you wish. Since all of the people you put into the system are saved, when you need to fill out a new form, you don't have to repeat any of that information - Willmaker does it for you. While I intend to run anything this product produces through a real attorney for protection, it certainly will save me hundreds of dollars on drafts. Like any other Quicken product, this is first-class.
 Awesome product to get your affairs in order. November 29, 2008
I really liked receiving the book along with the CD. It was a great bundle. It has helpful advice especially when helping someone else prepare a will, which is my intended purpose in getting this program. It was saying that you need a witness to verify that you only typed what the person wanted you to rather than typing your own thoughts. I had no idea I needed a witness to prepare my father's will. I learned something in the first 5 pages of the book.
The program loaded without a problem on my windows xp system. I did not try to load it on my windows vista as I've had nothing but trouble with windows vista and didn't want one more headache.
There were all the forms we needed and able to print out. This program was not good in Louisiana. It was convenient to be able to plan one's thoughts and getting it on paper without having the stress of finding an estate attorney much less paying for one. Overall a good investment.
Makes it easy to create legal documents November 28, 2008
Writing a will is one of those things that I know that I should do but never get around to doing. It's not that I don't understand the importance of it, but I could never just sit myself down and do it. Besides a will, there just seems to be too many documents that needed to be completed besides a will - Health Care Directives, Power of Attorney Documents - you name it. For my situation (single home owner) which documents do I need?
At first glance, this book can seem daunting - at over 600 pages, there's a lot of information there to look over. And the title of this book ("WillMaker") is misleading - creating a will is covered by about a third of this book. The remaining chapters of this book deal with trusts and all those other legal documents that you hear about but aren't sure whether you need them or not.
I started the entire process by skimming the book - let's face it - if I'm iffy about spending the time to write a will, do I really want to spend the time to read about 200 pages of text? I'm glad to say that the book is an easy read - it doesn't talk down to you, yet is easy to understand. There are clear examples of situations to help you to understand the concepts.
After skimming the book, I decided to install the software. I have a Windows computer with XP and found that the software installed very easily. After installation, I was given the option to register (and received a $10 coupon for my next Nolo product - thank you). The software also checks for updates (if you ever used TurboTax - it works exactly like that - every time you open the program, it wants to check for updates), and if it finds any updates from its website, downloads and installs those updates.
The software makes creating documents easy. A simple question at the start of the program helps the program determine which documents you need. You can then create these documents as you wish. What I liked is that it uses a split screen - on the left side of the screen it asks you a question (i.e. do you have pets?) and on the right side there is online help that provides guidance as to what the question entails and what you need to do. Just answer the question and click Next.
Included with this book and software is a CD that contains an eBook for people who are Executors of other people's estate. It's a 500+ page book in PDF format that while I don't need, is a very nice-to-have.
All in all, this product can help you to overcome your hesitations in creating those needed legal documents. Nicely done!
Used For A Multitude of Forms November 28, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This review is for the Quicken Willmaker Plus 2009 Edition: Estate Planning Essentials (Book with Software), and I will try to keep it simple:
1) The software is easy to load, use, and understand. I do not do much work with software programs, and the programs didn't give me any problems.
2) I was thrilled with the bonus executor cd-rom. I am the executor of my mother's estate, and I don't have any previous experience with those matters; it will also be a help to our executors, should the need arise.
3) We like to be prepared for any emergency, and have back-up plans for our back-up plans, so the extra forms were right up our alley. For example, we travel without our dogs, so we need to authorize their caretaker to make medical decisions in an emergency, which also makes things easier for our vet.
4) The book itself is extremely detailed and well-organized, so I was able to find answers to my questions without a hassle.
We used another source to create our original will, but we used Nolo to make updates, and create the other forms that are useful to us.
I think anyone would find what they are looking for in this package, but I highly recommend this to parents who are worried about their children's future in any scenario. You may also want to read Nolo's Encyclopedia of Everyday Law: Answers to Your Most Frequently Asked Legal Questions.
 Excellent as usual November 27, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Nolo Press publishes excellent legal products to help us avoid over priced con artist lawyers. This is no exception. We produced all the Estate Planning paperwork we need for just a few dollars. Granted, if you have a very complicated situation it might not be for you. But even then, you could do a lot with this and then have a lawyer look it over and save you money by doing a lot of the paperwork yourself.
Besides, most people with complex situations have the dough to hire a lawyer!
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