Every Californian's Guide to Estate Planning helps you understand the basics of leaving money and property to loved ones and charities, and naming a guardian for children--with a special focus on issues unique to California, like:

• how community property rules affect inheritance and taxes
  
• how to minimize capital gains for those inheriting high value real estate
  
• legal and tax rules that apply to non-citizens and U.S. permanent residents
  
• important issues for international guardians, trustees, and executors
  
• how to understand the impact of "Prop 19," and make sure your heirs don't lose a low ("Prop 13") property tax rate, and
  
• how to avoid California's slow and expensive probate system through options such as transfer-on-death deeds.
  

With Downloadable Worksheets

Includes access to essential worksheets that help you get started on writing a will, preparing a trust, choosing a guardian, leaving money to kids, naming beneficiaries, choosing agents for your health care directive and power of attorney for finances, doing a personal inventory, and more. details inside.