Kiplinger's WILLPower

by H & R Block

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000070MRG
• Item model number: 2234600-20
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 7, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,483 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #45 in Software > Business & Office > Legal
  • #77 in Software > Outlet
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Kiplinger's WILLPower is new for 2003 with updated forms that incorporate all the estate tax law changes that were part of the 2001 Tax Relief Act. Give your family peace of mind by creating a state-specific will, living trust, power of attorney, and health care power of attorney. The program also includes all necessary supplemental planning and estate administration documents.

The Plan wizard interviews you in an easy-to-follow format to make sure you include everything in your portfolio. It also helps you gather information about your assets, and calculates the value of your estate. Estate Manager recognizes the growth of your estate over the years and estimates your future estate value and estate tax bill. This tool provides accurate measures of your net worth, keeps your affairs up-to-date, and prints customized reports with estate planning advice.

Kiplinger's Estate Planning and Administration Guide provides relevant guidance and information regarding estate tax laws, long-term care, insurance, and more. As a bonus, you get Kiplinger's Executor Assistant, designed to help anyone who has been named executor of someone else's estate. The program provides tools to help you inventory and distribute assets, plus build reference topics.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

68 of 73 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars If it would run I might use it., January 20, 2003

By 

d reviewer - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kiplinger's WILLPower (CD-ROM)

I bought the previous version of this software sometime in 2002 only to find that it didn't run on Windows 2000. I ran it on Windows 98 only to find that if you entered any dates above the year 2000 that it would crash.

So onto the current version, well it still doesn't run under windows 2000. I reported the problem to Kiplinger and they said ask for a refund.

I'll be looking for my refund, I would suggest that you don't buy it in the first place.

As a side note the included manual/leaflet tells you to visit www.....com to register your product and for support, unfortunately that isn't their website.

If you are curious as to what it does on windows 2000 here are the details. The program starts but never shows a window. If you look on the processes in task manager you will find willpower.exe running, in fact if you start the program many times you will find many of them there. So without a window showing you can't use it.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This application is very poor, full of bugs, and generally.., November 23, 2003

By 

Alan Thompson "tommyalanson" (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kiplinger's WILLPower (CD-ROM)

will make you regret that you bought it. It barely even ran on my Mac in Classic mode, and would not run at all in OS X, athough it states that it is supported.

I really can't say enough bad things about this application; even when I did get it running under Classic, the quality of the application was just awful. Horrible unintuitive interfact, poor "interview" process, and poor results. It's difficult to use if you can get it to run at all. I will I could return it.

They should take this off the market... Do it right or not at all.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Willpower sucks, November 4, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Kiplinger's WILLPower (CD-ROM)

This is a ridiculously bad program. It's basically a word processor with some blank spaces for personal information, but for some reason it runs reaaalllly slllooowwwwww... I have know idea why. I have a fast computer that can handle video editing and photoshop files with ease and this thing just pokes along. You end up with some gibberish that needs to be corrected, and when you export, it just gives you the first page several times. I wouldn't trust anything that came out of this piece of junk.