A complete guide to planning an estate under today?s tax rules

This fully revised edition of J.K. Lasser?s Rules for Estate and Tax Planning offers useful advice for people of various ages and income. Completely updated to reflect the most current tax rules, this practical resource covers important topics such as trusts, charitable contributions, gifts, life insurance, wills, estate and generation-skipping tax planning, and retirement planning. With this book as their guide, readers will learn how to keep more today and leave more for their heirs tomorrow.

Harold I. Apolinsky, Esq., EPLS (Birmingham, AL), is a board-certified estate planning attorney and senior tax partner with the law firm of Sirote & Permutt, P. C. He is a former adjunct professor of estate planning at both the Cumberland School of Law and the University of Alabama Law School. Craig M. Stephens, Esq., LLM (Birmingham, AL), is a tax and estate planning attorney with the law firm of Sirote & Permutt, P. C. and a guest lecturer in estate planning at Cumberland School