BOOK REVIEW
By: Jeff Lippincott
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TITLE: Florida Personal Representative's Guide AUTHOR: Robert Sams COPYRIGHT: 1993 (but comes with annual update) ISBN: - (Library of Congress Catalog # 92-74116) PUBLISHER: George T. Bisel Company, Inc. |
Jeff's comments:
This book provides a good overview of many of the relevant topics to consider when
performing executor duties for a decedent's estate in Florida.
Table of Contents (TOC):
1. Steps Preliminary to Probate and Grant of Letters
2. Disposition of Estates Independent of Letters
3. The Grant of Letters of Administration
4. Probate of Wills
5. Duties Following Grant of Letters
6. Exempt Property, Family Allowance and Homestead
7. Elective Share of Surviving Spouse and Pretermitted Spouse and Children
8. Administration of Real Estate
9. Debts and Claims Against the Estate
10. Survival, Abatement and Control of Actions
11. Inventory
12. Florida Estate Taxes
13. Federal Estate and Income Taxes
14. Accounting
15. Distribution
16. Will Contests
Appendices:
1. Attorney's Check Sheet of Personal Representative's Duties
2. Estate Settlement Timetable
3. Post-Death Tax Planning Checklist
Copyright © 2006 by Jeff Lippincott. All rights reserved.