The Beneficiary Workbook [Paperback]

Martin M. Shenkman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 9, 1998

Properly organizing and accurately recording your assets are keys to ensuring financial security for yourself and your beneficiaries. This indispensable new guide shows you step by step how to get your affairs in order. Covering everything from bank accounts and real estate to insurance and retirement funds, The Beneficiary Workbook helps you arrange critical legal, financial, personal, and estate information into a system tailored to suit your individual goals.

Far more than just an organizer, The Beneficiary Workbook provides essential details on correcting and improving documented data, as well as invaluable advice on maintaining your records to safeguard against legal claims, maximize investment returns, assure adequate protection in case of disability, and be prepared for any circumstance --both expected and unexpected. A fully loaded resource, it contains all the organizational tools you'll need: practical guidelines, useful checklists, and easy-to-read charts, along with an IBM-compatible disk that includes all sample forms that you can easily customize for your personal use.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

The best way to ensure that your financial security is safeguarded and your beneficiaries are protected is to properly organize and record your assets. This comprehensive resource spells out how in plain English. It deals with everything from bank accounts and real estate to insurance and retirements funds and is packed with important tips on improving and correcting recorded data.

From the Back Cover

Properly organizing and accurately recording your assets are keys to ensuring financial security for yourself and your beneficiaries. This indispensable new guide shows you step by step how to get your affairs in order. Covering everything from bank accounts and real estate to insurance and retirement funds, The Beneficiary Workbook helps you arrange critical legal, financial, personal, and estate information into a system tailored to suit your individual goals.

Far more than just an organizer, The Beneficiary Workbook provides essential details on correcting and improving documented data, as well as invaluable advice on maintaining your records to safeguard against legal claims, maximize investment returns, assure adequate protection in case of disability, and be prepared for any circumstance —both expected and unexpected. A fully loaded resource, it contains all the organizational tools you'll need: practical guidelines, useful checklists, and easy-to-read charts, along with an IBM-compatible disk that includes all sample forms that you can easily customize for your personal use.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 295 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (March 9, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471172111
• ISBN-13: 978-0471172116
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,342,161 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Martin M. Shenkman, Esq.
Martin M. Shenkman, P.C.
P.O. Box 1300
Tenafly, New Jersey 07670
201-845-8400
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BIOGRAPHY

Martin M. Shenkman, CPA, MBA, JD, is an attorney in Paramus, New Jersey and New York City. His practice concentrates on estate planning and administration, tax planning, and corporate law.

Mr. Shenkman was included in Worth Magazines top 100 attorneys in 2007, CPA Magazines Top 50 IRS practitioners in 2008, Top 40 Tax Accountants in 2009, and was the recipient of the New Jersey Bar Association's Alfred C. Clapp Award in 2008.

He is a source for numerous financial publications including Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Money, and The New York Times. He has appeared on numerous television shows including The Today Show, CNN, NBC Evening News, CNBC, MSNBC, and CNN-FN .

He has published 36 books and 700+ articles. His recent books include Estate Planning for People with Chronic Illness and Disabilities (Demos); Estate and Related Planning During Economic Turmoil (AICPA) and Life Cycle Planning for the CPA Practice (AICPA), The Complete Book of Trusts (Wiley), and others.

Mr. Shenkman was named by Worth Magazine as one of the Top 100 attorneys in 2007, by CPA Magazine as one of the top 40 accountants in 2008 and 2009.

He earned a BS in economics - Wharton, MBA - University of Michigan, law degree - Fordham University, and is admitted to the bar in New York, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C. He is a CPA in New Jersey, Michigan, and New York.