Estate Planning For The Family Man

The stock market and the economy are volatile, and its difficult to know what moves to make to protect investments and savings. In The Family Mans Stock Market Volatility Survival Guide, author Donald F. Carpenter Jr. offers a guide geared toward men who are trying to protect their families financial future. Mr. Carpenter offers some important market strategies and investment advice for long-term financial stability. To help Family Men take inventory of their situation, The Family Mans Stock Market Volatility Survival Guide addresses the following: how you became worried about your finances in the first place; how and why family men ought to invest; the eight steps to protecting family wealth; how to survive stock market volatility; how and why American business survives in tough times; where money really comes from, and the six simple criteria for choosing an investment pro. The Family Mans Stock Market Volatility Survival Guide will help you reorient your priorities toward the sacred trust of financially defending your family in any economy.

Filled with real-life case examples, Estate Planning for the Healthy, Wealthy Family combines a positive attitude, deep psychological insight, and “hard” financial know-how for passing on money between family members while keeping relationships and values intact. With competence and empathy, the authors discuss such important moral issues as the role money plays in a happy family; how parents model their children’s values; and ways to build happy families where there is unequal wealth.

This book presents an easier way to handle estate planning, which the author calls the family meeting way. holding a family meeting to plan an estate is usually the easiest method because it allows the family to talk openly about the issues, ask questions, and work together. Ensure your family plans for the future without fighting! Use the steps in this book to plan ahead, hold meetings with your family, learn how to document the plan, and make it legal.

In this book, experienced Wills and Estates lawyers, Barry Fish and Les Kotzer, provide insight and strategies to help you plan to avoid inheritance disputes using a plain language, tell it like it is approach. The Family Fight: provides strategies and suggestions to avoid inheritance disputes and help keep your family united; explains complex legal terms in plain language; can help open a line of communication between parents and adult children; helps organize your affairs so that you don't leave a mess for your family; and presents real life family fight stories. It shows you: how one or two words in a will can tear apart a close family; how to deal with your personal items; what it really means to own something in joint ownership; and what you should not assume when planning your affairs.

Imagine the patriarch of the family is in his second marriage. He is retired from a business he currently owns and has several children. Imagine two of his children are grown, married, and from his first marriage. One of his children is a toddler and is from his second marriage. Also, imagine he is the stepfather to a child born to his second wife. Now, imagine his daughter runs the business he created and owns. She is married to a man who is a real estate agent and they have three children together. His son is in a same-sex marriage and he and his partner have adopted a daughter. Imagine from one man you have a second marriage, retiree, raising a toddler, stepson, married daughter, same-sex marriage, adoption, and grandchildren. Sounds like the makings of a good sitcom, doesn

A follow-up to John's popular estate planning book for Georgia residents, this book provides a step-by-step guide to estate planning no matter where you live with a special emphasis on the modern family. Imagine the patriarch of the family is in his second marriage. He is retired from a business he currently owns and has several children. Imagine two of his children are grown, married, and from his first marriage. One of his children is a toddler and is from his second marriage. Also, imagine he is the stepfather to a child born to his second wife. Now, imagine his daughter runs the business he created and owns. She is married to a man who is a real estate agent and they have three children together.His son is in a same-sex marriage and he and his partner have adopted a daughter. Imagine from one man you have a second marriage, retiree, raising a toddler, stepson, married daughter, same-sex marriage, adoption, and grandchildren. Sounds like the makings of a good sitcom, doesn't it?Today's families are much more complex than in times past. While your family may not include each of the above circumstance, there's a fair chance your family contains one or more of them. For this reason, estate planning cannot be cookie-cutter and each estate plan needs to be individualized for your particular family, the modern family.

Estate planning with a view to avoiding family fighting.