Your Step-by-Step Guide to Protecting Your Family, During the next 20-30 years, $9 trillion will pass from one generation to the next. Yet 70% of Americans have no logical plan to distribute their wealth at the end of their lives. For one reason or another-fear of their own mortality, procrastination, lack of time-most people spend more time planning their weekends than their estates.

A logical estate planner reviewed every other year, will make certain that your share of that fortune will be distributed to the people you love, in the way your want, when you want.

Completely updated and revised, this third edition of Estate Planning Made Easy shows how and why you need to take control of your financial planning â?? right now! Estate planning specialists David T. Phillips and Bill S Wolfkiel have provided a compact but comprehensive guide to help you easily negotiate the financial realm. From the changing role of Social Security to 401(k)s, they cover all of the need-to-know topics for protecting your assets both now and later. Complete with the recent tax legislation at state and federal levels, as well tax-saving techniques, the book addresses these pressing questions:

• What impact will todayâ??s most recent estate tax legislation have on my estate, and how can I take advantage of its provisions?
• What do I need to know about this legislation at the federal and state level?
• What financial strategies will help me avoid creditors, predators, and the IRS?
• How can I avoid typical estate-planning pitfalls and learn how to successfully pass on what I want, when I want, to whom I want?

Donâ??t let the courts determine what will happen to your assets. Properly plan your estates today.

David T. Phillips, CEO of Estate planning Specialists and Phillips Financial Services, in an active estate planning professional who helps clients conserve their wealth everyday and conducts estate planning workshops

Bill S. Wolfkiel is the founder and president of BDC, Inc., specializing in estate planning and wealth transfer strategies.