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A Must-Have for Wills & Trusts Students
I usually don't use hornbooks, but I was stumped with all the Wills and Trusts material.I initially got the Examples & Explanations book, which was a HORRIBLE MISTAKE.It lacks even the most basic concepts.I then went for Emanuel's, which was keyed to our textbook, and it was a dream come true, especially the mini briefs. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Estates & Trusts    2. Law    3. Legal Reference / Law Profession    4. Reference    5. Wills   

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A popular estate planning alternative in easy to understand book
As principal of a financial planning and wealth management firm, an important part of my service is to help clients coordinate their estate plan with other aspects of their financial picture, such as investments, retirement planning, insurance and tax issues.
The BEST BOOK on this subject - Period!
Henry Abts is the foremost authority on the workings of a Living Trust in the nation.After researching more I learned that Henry was basically the pioneer of hte living trust industry and has collected the best legal minds to help him in his handling of this important subject.
The BEST
This book gives all the answers in clear, easy to understand language.I have spent a lot of time researching the subject and this is the only source I feel I can trust (get the pun?) ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business/Economics    3. Estate Planning    4. Estates & Trusts    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Living trusts    7. Personal Finance - General    8. United States    9. Business & Economics / Personal Finance / General    10. Law for the lay person    11. Personal finance   

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You would be a dummie to buy this book.
Open this book and you will see that it is formatted and reads like every other textbook you have read since college.The writing makes no attempt to reduce the complexities of the subject.It simply reiterates all the language you never understood in the first place.As the author of "Everything A Baby Boomer Should Know -- An Insider's Guide to Estate Planning," I suggest you compare my book which honestly and easily explains the tools of the probate system, to this book which is impossible to understand if you have no background on the subject.

Its okay but I wanted more-specific information
This book gives you general information about Estate Planning but It left me wanting more. I was surprise that it didnt mention anything about AB trust. I wish it would have given the upside and donwnside to each options of wills or trust.
They weren't kidding when they said "for dummies"
I didn't find this book helpful at all.It just barely skims the surface, and usually concludes with "make sure you talk to your accountant/attorney/estate planner."If I intended to talk to all those folks, I wouldn't waste my time reading this book in the first place.Most of what this book covers could be learned by snooping around the web - and in many cases you can learn more that way.It defines the terminology, but even that is often inadequate. I suggest you check this book out from the local library, and then if you find it to be a useful resource go ahead and buy it.I wish I had done that - I don't feel this book has enough information to really qualify as a reference book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Accounting - General    2. Business/Economics    3. Consumer Finance    4. Estate Planning    5. Estates & Trusts    6. Law    7. Personal Finance - Financial Planning    8. Popular works    9. United States    10. Business & Economics / Personal Finance / General    11. Law for the lay person    12. Personal finance    13. Property & real estate   

Subjects:  1. Aeronautics    2. Aeronautics & Astronautics    3. Aviation - General    4. Civil Procedure    5. Law and legislation    6. Popular works    7. Reference    8. Technology    9. Transportation    10. United States    11. Energy & natural resources law    12. International law of transport & communications    13. Transportation / Aviation / General    14. USA   

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A fundraising book for the small nonprofit, or one that is not well organized!
This is a great book for the small nonprofit that does not know much about fundraising. If it were for a more established nonprofit, then it would not have referred to major gifts as those starting at $500. I'm used to major gifts starting at $10,000 and going up well into the 6 figures.
Clear and Simple Explanations of What Works
There are a tremendous number of non-profits around. There are also a tremendous number of funding organizations. Your job as the fundraising manager (whatever your exact job title may be) is to put your particular non-profit together with one or more funding organizations to raise the money you need.
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Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Finance    5. Fund Raising And Grants (General)    6. Fund raising    7. Non-Profit Organizations Management    8. Nonprofit Organizations & Charities    9. Nonprofit organizations    10. Philanthropy & Charity    11. Small Business - Capital Generation    12. Taxation    13. United States   

Subjects:  1. Careers - General    2. Construction contracts    3. Construction industry    4. General    5. Law    6. Law and legislation    7. Legal Reference / Law Profession    8. Taxation    9. United States    10. Business & Economics / Careers   

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Excellent book for small business deductions!
This book is absolutely terrific (as are most NOLO books).the author details what is deductable for the different forms of businesses, what records are required, how to record those records and specifics for all the major topics of deductable expenses.All in all if you walked in to see an accountant day one of starting out your business he should just hand you this book have you read and then answer any questions that you need further clarification on.This is a great reference if you are unsure how a specific deduction works and a very quick and easy read.This should be on every business owners shelf!

J Vasquez
This book is amazing.It's hard to set it down.Well organized with clear explanations and examples.A must for new business owners.It will help you steer away from IRS audits.The capital expense section will show you how to deduct the cost of this book.

Explaining the Rules, Both Written and Understood
The income tax laws of the United States clearly allow you do deduct business expenses. But from this basic rule has come an incredibly complex set of subsidiary rules that further define what are legitimate deductions and what are not allowed.
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Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Consumer Finance    5. Law and legislation    6. Personal Finance - General    7. Popular works    8. Small Business - General    9. Small Business Finance    10. Small business    11. Tax deductions    12. Taxation    13. Taxation - General    14. United States   

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good book, but needs further improvement
It is very clear and accurate in explaining the rules. It is not vey clear in certain chapters like Alternative Minimum Tax, or quantifying, even approximately, who can pass the trading activity test. Great Book for Learning About the Taxation of Investments
Ideal for those new to investment portfolio management
Kaye Thomas' Capital Gains, Minimal Taxes: The Essential Guide For Investors And Traders is a "plain language" guide to stocks, mutual funds, options, and tax strategies for maximizing returns and minimizing tax liabilities. Complete, authoritative, practical, "user friendly", this guide is ideal for those new to investment portfolio management and will prove both practical and invaluable in creating a personal financial investment plan with allied strategies. Indeed, Capital Gains, Minimal Taxes has much of value to offer even experienced investors with respect to tax rules for short sales, stock options, and "straddles". Highly recommended reading for sensible small investor strategic financial and investment planning. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Investments & Securities - General    3. Legal Reference / Law Profession    4. Personal Finance    5. Personal Finance - Taxation    6. Taxation    7. Taxation - General   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Consumer Finance    5. Military    6. Personal Finance - Taxation    7. Taxation - General    8. Business & Economics / Taxation / General    9. Taxation   

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An Excellent Primer on Trusts

Great reference book for new practitioners!
I have only purchased this book tonight, yet not on Amazon.com.I actually went to Borders and paid full price.Reason being, I could not wait to get my hands on a reference book to help me conceptualize projects and cases that I presently deal with at work as a new estate and tax planning attorney.I hear about ABC trusts, GST trusts, Living Trusts, just to name a few, every day.Yet I don't have the slightest idea about the particular mechanics of many of these valuable estate planning and tax saving tools.
Written in Legaleeze...got a better book for you
Read "Beyond the Grave, The Right Way and the Wrong Way of Leaving Money to Your Children" instead of this book or before you read this book.I bought both and gave up on this book after a couple chapters.Itwas a struggle to get through.Very dry, written like a tech manual, areal sleeper.Go read the reviews on Amazon for Condon's book beforedeciding which one to order.Trust me, you want the other book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Accounting - General    2. Business/Economics    3. Consumer Finance    4. Estate Planning    5. Estates & Trusts    6. Law    7. Personal Finance - Financial Planning    8. Popular works    9. Trusts and trustees    10. United States    11. Business & Economics / General    12. Equity & trusts    13. Finance    14. Personal finance    15. USA   

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Painful on the Surface, but Needed and Well Done
Taxes? Ouch! It's rather like going to the dentist. A necessary evil. Most of us small business owners love the profits, but cringe at the taxes. Uncle Sam can be intimidating and a book like this can help overcome the fears, while explaining the options. It answers most of the FAQ's we face and does so in a thorough and easy to understand manner. I will probably refer to it many times as various tax issues arise.

You'll be happy you bought it!
This is an exceptionally well-written and practical book on small business taxation and a very good starting point for anyone who is interested in learning how to keep good business records.

Best Small Business & Tax Book I Ever Read
I LOVE THIS BOOK.I am recommending it to ALL my clients.It is, truly, the most readable and enjoyable business/tax book I have ever read.May it help small business owners everywhere.It's full of bite size practical advice that you can put into practice to keep improving your business.All the bites together make up a feast for the entrepreneur who needs to get it done right with no time to do it.I am an accountant and tax professional who manages my own business and advises entrepreneurs and nonprofits.This book is my guide to running my own business and gives me help in my work of helping my clients.Thank you, Tax Mama!Your warmth, humor and in the trenches wisdom comes through on every page.
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Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Law and legislation    5. Planning    6. Small Business - General    7. Small Business Management    8. Small Business/Entrepreneurship    9. Small business    10. Taxation    11. Taxation - General    12. United States    13. Business & Economics / Small Business    14. Small businesses & self-employed   

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One for your Personal Library
Here is a book you can refer to forever.Good stuff to know.
Become an Informed Driver
This book was very knowledgeable on the ways cops obtain your speed as well as the faults in the types of ways they obtain it. Along with using correct and "street" terminology, it talks about the different types of radar used to pick up your speed and how they obtain your speed by pacing you. There are MANY faults and this book just confirms my prior thoughts that tickets are purely a money making scam not only for the police but for the insurance agencies as well. If nothing else buy it to be prepared when you do get pulled over as it gives you good tips on how to get away from a ticket at this early stage to. 4 out of 5 only because it does not list laws from every state just some laws from some states.

An Educated Guide To Speeding Tickets-How To Beat Avoid Them
It was helpfull but alot of the information is not good for the Washington state courts. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. General    2. Law    3. Law / Practical Guides    4. Popular works    5. Reference    6. Speed limits    7. Taxation    8. United States    9. Automotive    10. Court    11. Law / General    12. Practical Guides    13. Traffic Violations   

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Must have for freelance designers!
In starting out and gathering information it's hard to determine what books will be helpful. This is great. It is filled with tear out forms you can make copies of and use over and over. Great information. And the CD-ROM includes all the forms in pdf format, as well as Pagemaker and Quark XPress so that you can make changes to fonts and style, logo additions, and more, to suit your own home business.Files are compatible with Mac and IBMC platform, which is great for me being a designer working mostly on an IBM computer. Excellent book!

It's a $29.95 Lawyer!!
Our small graphic design firm had been relying on the legal forms and contracts from this book for about one year. Finally, we decided that perhaps we ought to visit with a lawyer to make sure we were doing it right...$560.00 later for an initial consultation, we realized that this $29.95 book was the best business investment we'd ever made! The lawyer confirmed that the contracts that we had been using were airtight and were great (he had a few other pointers...but, none worth $560.00). Buy it, you won't be sorry.
This book has EVERYTHING you need ... and then some.When you think you're not going to need one of the forms in this book, you later realize that YOU DO! As a freelance artist, using these forms made me feel as though clients noticed that they were dealing with a real professional.Absolutely a great investment. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Art    2. Art & Art Instruction    3. Artists    4. Artists' contracts    5. Forms    6. Graphic Arts - General    7. Graphic arts    8. Legal status, laws, etc    9. Legal status, laws, etc.    10. Reference    11. Taxation    12. United States   

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Truly a good primer
This is the only book I found that actually explained everything in its table of contents in a way that I could understand.This is an excellent book for a total beginner just trying to understand the basic issues of thin capitalization rules, deductions vs. exemptions vs. credits, double taxation, tax sparing, tax havens, etcetera. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business/Economics    3. General    4. International    5. International - Taxation    6. International business enterpr    7. International business enterprises    8. Law and legislation    9. Legal Reference / Law Profession    10. Taxation    11. Business & Economics / Public Finance    12. International economic & trade law    13. International economics    14. Taxation law   

Subjects:  1. Aliens    2. Corporations, Foreign    3. Foreign income    4. Income tax    5. International    6. Law    7. Law and legislation    8. Legal Reference / Law Profession    9. Taxation    10. United States   

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Gates and Buffet aren't the only ones who need an estate plan
After dealing with the aftermath of my father's death, I resolved I was going to do things differently.I read a number of estate planning books, but Cornwall's was far and away the most helpful. Written in simple layman's language, Everything a Baby Boomer Should Know demystifies the legal process. The book is also refreshing because the author discusses real-life topics. You think you have complex family issues?Consider what Bonanza's Ben Cartwright would face in today's legal environment.These are the types of clever examples Cornwall laces through the chapters.I can't afford the kind of legal muscle Gates and Buffet have, but I can certainly follow their example by knowing all my options and taking charge of my legacy.This book is definitely one of the most informative and easiest to read books on this topic.

You Need This Book
As a CPA I marvel at two things:First, the amount of wealth that is being transferred from the Greatest Generation to their children, the Baby Boomers, and how much of that wealth will be added to and passed on to the Boomer's children.Second, how many estates are badly planned (or not at all) under the impression that "we're not rich, so we don't need to do anything".(Guess what: if your estate consists of a modest house and/or an IRA, the systems of probate and estate taxes may consider you very rich!).
The flow charts make estate planning come to life
Everything a Baby Boomer Should Know, simply put, is an extremely well thought out estate planning guide.I found Mark Cornwall's book to be extremely intuitive, shedding light on estate planning in a fun easy to understand format. From the very first moment I picked up the book and flipped through a few pages landing on one of the many lively flow charts things started to make sense.
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Subjects:  1. Aging - General    2. Estates & Trusts    3. Law    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Living Trusts    6. Practical Guides    7. Law / Practical Guides    8. Law-Estates & Trusts    9. Law-Living Trusts   

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everything is in there, but take it with a grain of salt.
If I had to suggest the purchase of this book I would recommend it. There is almost everything in the book about US antitrust. But some warnings are necessary. It's not for students. It's not for lawyers. Maybe scholars and judges can be interested. The author highlights what is not coherent in the body of untistrust legislation. He provides some solution but that solution turns out to be simple: stay put. On that we can debate, but for sure it's a useful check in the bugs of the system. Given the approach I would have given 5 stars if the author had provided some hints or quantitative analysis to the reader on the effects of some of the Supreme Court decisions on lower Courts and on the current management of antitrust law. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Antitrust    2. Antitrust law    3. Law    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. United States    6. Competition law    7. Law / Antitrust    8. USA   

Subjects:  1. Estates & Trusts    2. Law    3. Legal Reference / Law Profession    4. Probate law and practice    5. Trusts and trustees    6. United States    7. Wills    8. Business & Economics / General    9. Equity & trusts    10. USA    11. Wills & probate   

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Way to Go Sav
This book is super-great in every way.The forms are pretty darned good, but mostly, the book itself is exactly the right thickness to level up my dining room table. So when I'm not whipping out some quick construction contract form stuff, I can enjoy a meal without the table wobbling at all. The cover is colorful too- my pet ferret likes that. Highly recommended.

Great book for biginners
I'm new in this business and this book help me to make construction forms and contract so easy.

NOT FOR THE HOMEOWNER
I purchased this book to help build my house.I am the general contactor for the job and I thought I would be able to find some form for the sub contractors to sign.This was not the case and it really wasn't any help to me at all.It might help someone who is starting their own business butnot for someone building their own house. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business/Economics    3. Careers - General    4. Civil Procedure    5. Construction - General    6. Construction contracts    7. Forms    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. United States   

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A useful book to have
I bought and read this book and there is lots of useful information here but I wish that the authors had gone further.
Simple Explanations of a Complex Tax Code
Taxes related to a small business are complex and even a little bewildering if you haven't gotten into them before. But as this book says, they're not rocket science difficult.
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Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business/Economics    3. Law and legislation    4. Small Business - General    5. Small Business Management    6. Small Business/Entrepreneurship    7. Small business    8. Tax planning    9. Taxation    10. Taxation - General    11. United States