According to attorney and author David Goodhart, one of the biggest misconceptions of estate planning is that all you need is a Will and that will take care of everything. He reports that a Will is so often the exact OPPOSITE of what you need, so he wrote a book about Wills and then wrote a new book that throws a few rocks at Wills. His goal in How to Avoid Probate . . . Like the Plague is to preserve estate assets for heirs through legitimate actions to avoid the costs, financial and otherwise, of heirs having to go through probate--that legal process attached to the execution of a Will.

Of course, every state has its own estate-planning laws, and while the concepts presented in Goodhart’s book are important for all, he concentrates on Texas law. With his decades of legal experience, he offers clear, easy, doable solutions to take now to protect the assets in your estate later for your heirs. This is a compact read with impact!