How to Laugh at Death and Taxes

This book is for everyone at some time in their life. If you're breathing this book's for you... or your parents friends teenagers moving into their first apartment newlyweds new parents siblings ... oh and the person or people you name as executor. Hope to be a beneficiary or heir? Yup you too. Think you can do it alone? Be my guest but first Google executor horror stories. <br /><br />What makes this book different?<br />- It's four for the price of one: You can use it when you're naming accepting to be or serving as executor and if you're an heir or beneficiary.<br />- It's by a layperson who survived: Most of what you'll find about naming being and dealing with executors comes from legal financial or tax experts and governments. Makes sense. For them death is a growth industry. But for you it's about naming someone you trust to look after your affairs when you die understanding the effort and risks if you've been asked to be an executor managing an estate effectively if you're acting as one and knowing where you stand if you expect to inherit. <br />- It offers useful tools: The book provides plain-language explanations checklists templates and tips. <br />- It's long-lasting: While legal tax accounting and financial rules change and the book mainly uses Ontario examples the process to follow and the questions to ask experts will not. Also the approach is generally similar to that in many other countries. <br />- Caution: To help relieve the subject's misery and tedium this book uses humour-be warned!