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 making an estate plan in 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 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.