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Continuing Resources

Michigan estate planning handbook

Call Number

  • LAW 346.052 M6246 2025 [multiple volumes] (CEN)

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Edition

Fourth edition.

Publication Information

Ann Arbor, MI : The Institute of Continuing Legal Education, 2025-

Physical Description

2 volumes : portraits, illustrations, forms ; 26 cm

Notes

Includes index.

Contents

  • Volume 1. Overview of estate planning / Getting started / Predeath planning : lifetime wealth and health fiduciaries / Forms of property ownership / Appointment of fiduciaries / Statutory fiduciary powers / Drafting the will / Introductory clauses ; debts, expenses ; funeral, burial arrangements / Gifts of tangible personal property and other types of assets / Residuary gifts and powers of appointment / Miscellaneous will provisions / Testamentary trusts / Using revocable grantor trusts / Joint revocable trusts / Introductory trust clauses
  • Volume 2. Planning for a surviving spouse / Estate planning for special family situations / Dispositive provisions / Office of trustee / Trustee adminstrative powers / Directed and divided trusteeships / Accounts and miscellaneous trust provisions / Implementing the estate plan / Planning with retirement benefits / Special assets / Charitable trusts / Tax considerations / International estate planning / Marital agreements

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