Beneficiary Guide for Everyone: How to Receive What's Yours from Wills, Trusts, and Estates
Jul 2025 · Simon and Schuster
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About this ebook
Learn how to protect your rights, avoid delay or fraud, and ensure what is yours ends up in the right place.
The primary reason people take the time to write a will or create a trust is not for their own sake. It is to be sure that the legal process for their beneficiaries is simple, quick, and fair, reflecting not just their wishes but also being mindful of the expectations and needs of those left behind.
Beneficiary Guide for Everyone is a step-by-step guide on how to make and execute these decisions from both sides of the process. Section one covers the perspective of the planner: choosing how to leave your assets to your chosen beneficiaries, simplifying complicated legal options, definitions, and concepts. Section two covers how beneficiaries should approach the process so that assets are distributed with minimum delays or complications.
Throughout the book, author and lawyer Ronald Farrington Sharpuses an "Ask the Lawyer" format to describe some common and even unusual questions friends and clients have posed to him. He answers the practical as well as legal aspects of the questions asked with thoughtful solutions.
The primary reason people take the time to write a will or create a trust is not for their own sake. It is to be sure that the legal process for their beneficiaries is simple, quick, and fair, reflecting not just their wishes but also being mindful of the expectations and needs of those left behind.
Beneficiary Guide for Everyone is a step-by-step guide on how to make and execute these decisions from both sides of the process. Section one covers the perspective of the planner: choosing how to leave your assets to your chosen beneficiaries, simplifying complicated legal options, definitions, and concepts. Section two covers how beneficiaries should approach the process so that assets are distributed with minimum delays or complications.
Throughout the book, author and lawyer Ronald Farrington Sharpuses an "Ask the Lawyer" format to describe some common and even unusual questions friends and clients have posed to him. He answers the practical as well as legal aspects of the questions asked with thoughtful solutions.
About the author
Ronald Farrington Sharp, Esquire, has practiced family and estate law since 1975 after attending the University of Michigan and Wayne State University Law Schools. He has personally prepared over three thousand trusts and is the author of Settling Estates for Everyone, How to Probate for Everyone, Living Trusts for Everyone, and Winning the Divorce War (all from Allworth Press), as well as No Regrets, No Remorse (Poisoned Pen Press). An award-winning mystery writer and sculptor, Sharp is married to the artist Susannah Keith and has three children and three terrific granddaughters. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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