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The Executor's Handbook is a step-by-step guide for estate executors and personal representatives. Covering everything from probate to wills to liquid assets, it helps readers determine the best course of action as an executor. Updates to this edition include: New information on wills New types of bank accounts, such as pay-on death accounts The Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 The increasingly common use of trusts All state and federal laws, in texts and tables.



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Theodore E. Hughes

Theodore E. Hughes (1942- ) , Michigan Assistant Attorney General (Ret) , was born in N. Conway, New Hampshire, grew up in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and graduated from Eastern Michigan University and the Detroit College of Law. Ted is a Michigan attorney skilled in wills, trusts, and estate planning...subjects he has taught at Thomas M. Cooley Law School and continues teaching at Michigan State University. He has authored two sets of lawbooks for the legal profession and is the senior author of seven nationally published books on estate planning, estate settlement, and related subjects. His latest books include "The Handbook to Wills, Funerals and Probate" (3rd ed) and "The Executor's Handbook" (4th ed) .



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