The Executor's Handbook, Third Edition is a step-by-step guide to settling an estate for personal representatives, administrators, and beneficiaries. This new edition has been thoroughly updated and revised to cover the latest rules and procedures. Updated coverage includes the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 and all state law tables; executor's fees and liabilities; 401(k) and other retirement accounts; long-term care insurance and Medicaid; transfer of family businesses; registrations and deeds; and much more.

Acting as the executor, representative, or administrator of an estate is a complicated and time-consuming task, not only in an administrative sense but often in an emotional sense as well. "The Executor s Handbook, Fourth Edition" is a comprehensive guide for readers who need help understanding the basics of the procedures that settle an estate. In practical and straightforward language, it covers all aspects of estate administration, including funeral arrangements, organ donation, administering probate, dealing with the deceased's assets and liabilities, and personal representative's...