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The newest edition of Natalie Choate's best-selling book. These are new books, (not used), direct from the publisher. Intended audience: lawyers, CPAs, financial planners, other professionals who advise individuals regarding tax treatment of their retirement benefits. The "Bible" on IRA distribution planning. Expected publication 10/1/06.
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"The Source" for retirement account rules and planning ideas.......2007-04-20
As an estate planning attorney with over 23 years' experience, I've had a long time to review the books in my field and discern the good from the bad, the worthwhile from the worthless. Without a doubt, Ms. Choate's exhaustive review and analysis of the IRS statutes, rules, regulations, private letter rulings, and planning ideas related to IRAs and qualified plans is THE "source" not only for myself but for 1,000s of attorneys and financial planners all across the U.S.
I anxiously await each new edition, feeling secure that now I'll be up-to-date again with the latest planning ideas, tips and techniques in this area of the tax law.
Written in a down-to-earth style but with complete footnotes and citations, Ms. Choate's book is the go-to source for my questions about: what are the basic rules governing the minimum distribution payouts from retirement plans? what special options are available to a surviving spouse? what are the rollover rules? can or should the beneficiary sign a "disclaimer"? what are the Roth IRA rules? can I leave my IRA to a charity? should I name the marital or credit shelter trust as beneficiary of my client's IRA? what are the pros and cons of doing so? what are the pitfalls of naming the family trust as IRA beneficiary? what are the IRS "trust rules" to follow when naming any kind of trust as beneficiary of a qualified plan or IRA? The list goes on and on...
If you do ANY planning or advising clients in the area of naming beneficiaries of IRAs or qualified retirement plans, you simply must have a copy of this 575-page book on your bookshelf. Well worth the modest expense!
The Professional's Reitement Benefits Bible.......2006-12-26
This book is, without a doubt, the single essential reference guide for financial planning, retirement planning and estate planning professionals. While written for professionals, it is accessable to non professionals as well.
If you have a question about distributions from a qualified plan or an IRA, you will find the answer here.
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Fans of Thomas Perry's popular series featuring Jane Whitefield, the Seneca Indian woman who helps people disappear (The Face-Changers, Shadow Woman, et al.) may be disappointed when they discover that Death Benefits doesn't feature the heroine who has won this writer so many new readers. But the disappointment won't last longer than the first page of this intriguing and extremely well-written new thriller, whose hero, John Walker, a data analyst for a large insurance company, deserves a series of his own.
When a security man named Max Stillman plucks Walker out of the office pool and dragoons him into investigating a fraud against the McClaren Life and Casualty, Walker's previously safe life takes a new and potentially dangerous turn. As the pair begin searching for the missing employee, who signed off on the huge (and phony) payoff of a death claim, and follow her to a grave in a Midwestern wheat field, Walker discovers talents he never knew he had and a thirst for vengeance. With the mysterious Stillman, he tracks the conspirators to a New Hampshire village and an explosive and shocking conclusion to a fraud that's much older than either of the men might have guessed. Like Don Winslow, whose California Fire and Life also focused on insurance fraud, Perry manages to make even the dusty back corners of the corporate world a likely setting for mystery and mayhem. This is a sharp, suspenseful, successful debut for a pair of unlikely compatriots, marked by Perry's edgy, noirish style, lively dialogue, and superb pacing. --Jane Adams
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A careful, methodical young data analyst for a California insurance company, John Walker knows when people will marry, at what age they will most likely have children, and when they will die. All signs point to a long successful career?until Max Stillman, a gruff security consultant, appears without warning at the office. It seems a colleague with whom Walker once had an affair has disappeared after paying a very large death benefit to an impostor. Stillman wants to find and convict her; Walker is convinced the woman is innocent. Now Walker teams up with Stillman on an urgent north-by-northeast race? relentlessly leading to a pay-off that just might shock the life out of him. . . .
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With writing that is "sharp as a sushi knife" ("Los Angeles Times"), Perry crafts a story of insurance fraud that explodes and overtakes the life of John Walker, a young data analyst who has no idea what he's getting into when he joins a deadly investigation.
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How to be very cool.......2006-05-01
I once accidently got a subscription to "GQ". I found it very interesting, since apparently what men want most is to be like James Bond. Drop a man off in a strange city and he wants to go to the right restaurant, order the right drink, have woman throw themselves at him, and most of all, win the admiration of other good men. Oh, and fight evil, too.
Thomas Perry want to help you with this. He not only wants to tell you the right drink, he wants you to win the respect of the bartender ("The Pursuit"), to successfully hide from the Mafia ("Butcher's Boy"), and to become the perfect mass-murderer ("Sleeping Dogs"). His books are practically how-to manuals for coolness, as long as you don't let sissy things like morality get in your way. In this book, "Death Benefits", he wants to show you how wrong you are to want a secure job at an insurance company when you could be chasing criminals across the continent with your dashing boss, limitless expense account, and adoring female colleague.
The book has an interesting 3-part structure, starting when young innocent John Walker is lured away from his cubicle when a former girlfriend disappears and is accused of fraud; he agrees to help the free-lance investigator Max Stillman because he wants to clear the woman of involvement in the crime. While doing that, he has to help out at the company's Florida branch when a hurricane comes roaring in, and while there, stumbles upon clues that lead him to a small New England town where the solution to all his questions may lie..... Walker is an engaging character, and you can't help but root for him to "find himself" as he solves these mysteries. The problem is that Perry finally over-reaches with the small New England town, stealing his plot, improbably, from H.P. Lovecraft, with regrettable results.
If you aren't a "GQ" kind of man, you might even get tired of Max Stillman, who fights crime with methods the police aren't allowed to use, and triumphs over evil while making loads of money. He's not even slightly believable, so it may seem a waste of time following his exploits and writing down tips in case *you're* ever a free-lance crime-fighter. I personally prefer the old-fashioned police procedural, where I may learn something real about crime and punishment.
Death Benefits by Thomas Perry.......2005-07-29
This was a good read. It wasn't a story in which you could predict what was going to happen. I enjoyed it. I also liked the Jane Whitefield novels by this author.
Shockingly good.......2005-02-24
I have been gobbling up Thomas Perry novels ever since discovering his Jane Whitfield series, so I only glanced at the cover when I picked this one up from the bin. I have to confess I was let down when I saw that it was about the insurance industry--what could be more boring? But "boring" is exactly the wrong word to use to describe this wonderfully exciting novel. I was hooked from the first few pages and just could not put it down. This is one of those suspense thrillers where you love the characters and are so swept up in the story you forget to make dinner for yourself. The disappearance of a woman who looks as if she is involved in a scheme to peculate millions leads a former lover on a quest to uncover her fate, and he soon finds himself embroiled in a deep conspiracy. This is believable, a book about greed and love, that will fascinate you.
Eventually, Boring.......2004-11-08
Perry can always be counted on for terse dialogue and terse action. I had hopes for the same for the first half of the book. It then seemed his mind began to wander, and so did mine.
Disappointing.......2004-11-01
I loved Butcher's Boy and immediately picked up Death Benefit expecting or wishing for a reprise. The beginning of it was equal. Walker the inexperienced analyst and Stillman the experienced detective work together and find the body of Ellen Snyder. As in other Perry book's the characters are interesting.
The second section of the book is almost painful to read. The never ending stay in the small town in New Hampshire was uninteresting. I also have trouble figuring out what really happened. If someone want to explain this to me please send me an E Mail.
Others have enjoyed these books so I will not give away too much. All I can say is that I have read three Perry books now and 2 our of 3 were good so I will give it a try.
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Uninsured in America goes to the heart of why more than forty million Americans are falling through the cracks in the health care system, and what it means for society as a whole when so many people suffer the consequences of inadequate medical care. Based on interviews with 120 uninsured men and women and dozens of medical providers, policymakers, and advocates from around the nation, this book takes a fresh look at one of the most important social issues facing the United States today. A new afterword updates the stories of many of the people who are so memorably presented here.
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Reaching beyond statistics and prevalent assumptions, Uninsured in America goes to the heart of why more than forty million Americans are falling through the cracks in the health care system, and what it means for society as a whole when so many people suffer the consequences of inadequate medical care. Based on interviews with 120 uninsured men and women and dozens of medical providers, policymakers, and advocates from around the nation, this book takes a fresh look at one of the most important social issues facing the United States today. The vivid and moving stories of those interviewed illustrate the complicated dilemmas--including full-time family caregiving, sudden illness, self-employment, layoffs, and on-the-job injuries--faced by those trying to balance medical problems with housing costs and other daily necessities. This engrossing, accessible, and timely book concludes that our current health care system is leading to fundamental structural changes in American society.
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If you want to know what is happening in our country...buy it now!.......2007-05-07
This is not a work of fiction, it is horrifyingly real and it will keep you up at night unable to put the book down. Each chapter contains real-life situations that people across the country face as they struggle to survive without health insurance. These are facts you think can only happen to "other" people, but these others are looking more and more like us. Somehow, their lives still remain hidden from the general public, but this book deserves to be discussed on 60 minutes to make people aware of what is happening in our country. This book terrified me more than any horror novel ever could, because it could happen to any one of us at any time.
the rise of a "caste system" in the US.......2006-01-20
The authors strongly couch their presentation as attesting to the rise of a caste system in the United States. Where the caste consists of the chronically ill, infirm and marginally employed. Several members of this group are interviewed. In the MidWest, Mississipi and other regions.
A common symptom is a death spiral, whereby working class individuals, who might indeed have worked very hard, but then suffered injuries, fall into a feedback loop. Where they can barely afford health case. Except for emergency room admissions. A cruel paradox.
The book goes into how the stress of poverty and being ill can feed into and reinforce each other.
Another ironic aspect shown is how caregivers can often lack health insurance. A bitter scenario that is all too common.
Uninsurance is a real problem.......2005-09-13
Lack of insurance is a verifiable problem, and one can obtain more information from the Institute of Medicine which published 6 reports. I'd recommend starting with the last: Insuring America's Health-Principles and Recommendations and an article by Leslie Weatherly from HR Magazine: "The rising cost of health care: strategic and societal considerations for employers."
The uninsured is a fliud group: 80 million lacked insurance for one month out of 24; 23 million lacked insurance for the entire 2 years. (I'm a physician who went without health insurance for 4 years.) 45 million is the average number of uninsured each month. The majority of uninsured are non-Hispanic whites, and most are from families in which one person works. Blacks are twice as likely to be uninsured; Hispanics-three times. Foreigners' rate of uninsurance declines with increasing time here.
Small business owners often can't afford to provide insurance. Individuals either find the premiums prohibitive or they can't buy insurance at any price. Medicaid does not cover single adults and childless couples. Families lose coverage when the member providing insurance loses employment, dies or through divorce. COBRA can be costly (the premiums for my wife and I went from $750/month to $937 before we regained employer-based coverage). A recent study found half of bankruptcies were because of medical expenses, even among people with insurance.
Sadly, sad stories of peoples' suffering isn't likely to convince policy makers bought by special interest groups.The traditional Republican belief is "I got mine; it's your fault if you don't have yours." Medicaid has been framed as being wasted on "crack-whores having babies" when in reality the majority is spent on the elderly and disabled.
Change will come only when the pain is great enough to produce a mass-movement demanding a solution, and those spearheading the drive have more political savvy than their opponents.
The Death Spiral Of Persons Who Lack Health Insurance.......2005-06-12
40,000,000 - 50,000,000 Americans have no health insurance and another group of Americans of equal size are underinsured. Americans have to choose between food and medicine. Americans live in a land of opportunity until they have a challenge to their health. If you have a challenge to your health and if you do not have the best private health insurance you will enter a death spiral as the change in your health will drain away your money and your hope. It is a sad day - only in America, the land of no national health insurance.
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Everybody dies sooner or later. It's the people dying sooner that cause attorney Mici Smith and Dr. Rob Craig to work together to seek answers.
Mici's response to Elinor Grace's death and the Grace family's suspicions that she was murdered is, as always, thorough. What she doesn't realize is that obtaining the exhumation order for Elinor's body will be opening the proverbial Pandora's box. Like Pandora, her life will never be the same again.
At the behest of the Grace family, Mici hires Rob to perform the autopsy. Rob finds that Elinor has been poisoned with nicotine. His gut tells him it is neither suicide nor an accident.
After the police refuse to look into Elinor Grace's suspicious death, Rob and Mici start down the twisted path to discover who would want to kill the elderly woman. Did the person who killed Elinor Grace also kill the Medical Director of the viatical insurance company which had bought her life insurance policy? Was Elinor killed as part of a scheme to make money for an unscrupulous CEO? Or was she killed for something she knew? Who is Master X and why does he want to kill Mici and Rob? How is Mici's evil father involved in the deaths?
The answers to these questions lead the couple to a scene right out of Edgar Allen Poe, complete with a dark and stormy night, baying hounds and a crypt.
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Everybody dies sooner or later. In DEATH BENEFITS, it's the people dying sooner that cause attorney Mici Smith and Dr. Rob Craig to work together. Did the person who killed Elinor Grace also kill the Medical Director? Was Elinor killed as part of a scheme to make money for an unscrupulous CEO? Or was she killed for something she knew? Who is Master X and why does he want to kill Mici and Rob? How is Mici's evil father involved in the deaths? The answers to these questions lead the couple to a scene right out of Edgar Allen Poe, complete with a dark and stormy night, baying hounds and a crypt.
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A wonderful romantic suspense novel.......2002-10-02
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Mici Smith is the attorney, and friend, handling the sudden death of Elinor Grace and the Grace family estate. Elinor's remaining family suspects there was foul play involved in her death, as she was a very healthy woman, expected to live several more years yet. At their request, Mici arranges an exhumation order so an autopsy can be performed on the body.
Dr. Rob Craig is the independent doctor hired by Mici to perform the autopsy. He is one of the best and what he uncovers is rather shocking. It turns out Elinor was murdered... by an overdose of nicotine; but when he and Mici take the autopsy results to the police, no one believes that Elinor was murdered. So they set out on their own to uncover the secrets behind this mystery.
Their first stop is Elinor's insurance provider, Life Benefits, where they start asking questions regarding Elinor's state of affairs and her insurance plan. The medical director, Dr. Eric Martin, there appears nervous when they arrive, making them suspect something. When his dead body turns up a few days later, right around the time a mysterious package, sent by Dr. Martin just before his death, is stolen from Rob's home, they know they are on the right track.
However, there are many unusual circumstances surrounding their investigation, throwing them for a loop. An intruder in Mici's home is the first, threatening her life, and that of Rob, if they continue looking into this issue. Also, some anonymous phone tips lead them in a totally different direction, making them suspect there may be more than one killer on the loose. Conflicting evidence, more suspicious deaths, and continued threats to Mici and Rob's safety, causes them to realize they better solve the case fast...before they both end up dead.
Move over Mary Higgins Clark, a new mystery/suspense author is on the rise! There are more twists and turns here then one would think possible for a single story. It takes one from the ritziest, most innocent of neighborhoods, to the dark, decadent underworld of the city, on a roller-coaster ride of spine-tingling suspense. Danger and depravity are the norm for Mici and Rob's suspects, drawing the two of them into its frightening web of deceit. Yet the two of them manage to get through it all with their innocence intact, while becoming closer to each other, adding a touch of romance to the tale.
Ms. Michaels keeps the reader enthralled from the first page and one will be on the edge of the seat as the pages keep turning, all the way to the shocking and truly gothic style ending, which would do even Edgar Allen Poe proud. This book is most definitely one for the keeper shelf and has this reviewer now ready to go out and find other books by Ms. Michaels.
© Kelley A. Hartsell, August 2002. All rights reserved.
Timeless Tales review.......2002-09-15
By TT reviewer Amy L. Turpin [full review on our website]
There is something sinister going on, and Michelle (Mici) Smith intends to get to the bottom of it! When approached by the granddaughter of a long time client, the successful lawyer turns to forensic pathologist, Rob Craig; a person she believes can confirm or deny the woman's belief that her grandmother's death was not from a heart attack. Mici has no idea how right this woman is! Not only did Elinor Grace not die from a heart attack, it looks like she may have been murdered.
Together, Mici and Rob begin to piece together bits and pieces of what looks like a money making scam straight from hell. The action heats up after Mici's apartment is broken in to, and she realizes that the prowler is not interested in anything in her home but her. He wants her dead, and he wants to be the one to carry out her sentence. Following one disturbing lead after another, the tenacious twosome act on a lead given by a mysterious caller and wind up at a perverse sex club called 'The Dungeon' and make two startling discoveries in the aftermath: one-their killer is more determined to make Mici suffer than they first realized, and two-somewhere along the way, they have fallen in love.
With a maniac on their tail and more than one murder to solve, Rob must use his medical and forensic knowledge to stop the brutal murders and keep Mici safe from a sadistic man with homicidal intentions. Rob knows he is he running out of time, but worse, he knows who the killers is! When he goes to Mici to impart his startling discovery, he finds her note explaining that she has gone to check out a hunch. Problem is, she's headed straight into the path of a killer! The only real question is: Will Rob be in time to save the woman he loves?
This tale of intrigue is catching from the first chapter, and continues to build in substance through the very end. Some of the scenes from 'The Dungeon' sent chills down my spine and I can honestly say the details were an astonishingly graphic and painful read, in a horrific kind of way. Over all, this book is a very worthy effort by the author, and I look forward to reading more of her work in the future.
Death Benefits.......2000-08-04
Elinor Grace dies unexpectedly. This is a woman that although elderly, had many more years of life expectancy. Why did she suddenly die for no apparent reason? Was she murdered or did she die of natural causes? The police are convinced that there was nothing to the death and that Elinor just died of old age from natural causes. Karen Grace, Elinor's granddaughter, doesn't think so. Karen has received an anonymous call that said Elinor was murdered. She requests the family lawyer to have the body exhumed and an autopsy performed as one was not performed upon Elinor prior to her burial.
Dr. Rob Craig, an independent Forensic Pathologist, has been hired to perform the autopsy on Elinor Grace. A copy of all of her medical records has been sent to him and he agrees something is definitely not right here. Ms. Grace should have lived much longer. He performs the autopsy as requested and the results confirm that Elinor did not die of natural causes. She was poisoned with nicotine; in the form of her rose poison. But there is no proof that she did not ingest it voluntarily.
Michelle (Mici) Smith is the Grace family's lawyer who drew up the paperwork to have the body exhumed and autopsied. When Mici receives the Forensic report, she is determined that regardless of whether or not the police reopen the case, Elinor's murderer will be found. She tricks Dr. Craig into helping her. As they uncover clues, they both begin to receive death threats and attempts are made on Mici's life. The race is on to solve Elinor's murder, prevent any more murders from happening and at the same time, keep themselves from being another murder statistic.
Monette Michaels has yet again produced another fantastic book. Once again she manages to capture the imagination and produce vivid characters. Death Benefits draws you completely into the book, making you feel as if you are there watching the drama unfold. The book provides you with murder, suspense, thrills, danger, excitement and at the same time includes just enough romance to add to the unfolding story. This is definitely a book for your personal library.
DEATH BENEFITS.......2000-07-31
Once again, Monette Michaels writes with clarity and power in her suspense thriller, DEATH BENEFITS. This fast-paced story sweeps the reader into a shadowy world of science, sex, intrigue and murder, and races to a stunning conclusion where the difference between life and death is measured in a handful of heartbeats.
masterfully written.......2000-07-29
Elinor Grace is dead, and her granddaughter Karen along with the family lawyer, Mitchell, feel that it was murder, so they hire an independent Forensic Pathologist to do a autopsy. Dr. Rob Craig concludes that Elinor was indeed murdered, but the police don't buy it so that leaves Dr. Craig and Mici Smith to investigate on their own. Their investigation leads to a insurance company called Life Benefits, seems that a lot of their clients have died lately. Dr. Eric Martin, who works for Life Benefits, talks to Rob and Mici, and he turns up dead also. Phone calls start coming in to the police and to Rob to check out a Master X.
I read this book in one night. It was so compelling, suspenseful, and masterfully written. Dr. Rob Craig and Mici Smith are great characters with a lot of depth. Master X is vile, perverse, and a sadist of the worst kind; he has no -conscious of any kind.
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Well written, intriguing and enjoyable to read........1998-09-24
Rachel Gold Mysteries is an excellent example of the female detective/attorney genre. Not to be compared with Kinsey Millhone (which is the best) but the Rachel Gold series gives a different perspective from a female attorney's point of view. (Rachel Gold has a law degree and Kinsey Millhone has a high school diploma with police academy training. The differences in perspective are informative to say the least. Death Benefits shows an inside look at a senior partner's life that you won't get to see anywhere else. This was an intriguing and fast paced book. Also it takes place in St. Louis so you get the feel of a large city in the Midwest compared to the East or West coast.
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An exotic Hawaiian vacation was what Ginger Carpenter had planned. What she got was a tropical nightmare! An escaped murderer was on the trail of her two foster nieces once more. To protect them, she had to rely on Dr. Ray Clyde—the man she had never wanted to see again. Ginger hadn't been able to forgive Ray's interference with her vocation as a missionary. Now, with danger lurking behind every palm tree, she'd have to fi nd a way to forget the past to make sure they'd all have a future—.
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Good read with surprise plot twist.......2007-08-23
Death Benefits was just as good as the rest of the Hideaway series. Even though much of the story takes place in Hawaii and not Hideaway, there are still lots of tie ins to the town. I especially liked the surprise plot twist toward the end of the book.
enjoyable mystery.......2007-08-13
A good mystery. It is simple to read and I enjoyed it. I enjoy their longer novels better because there is more time to develop the characters but this is good for a quick read.
Suspense in an exotic setting.......2007-07-14
Ginger Carpenter was forced into retirement from the mission field, and she still resents it. However, she's determined not to let her hurt feelings interfere with her brother's wedding. Graham and Willow Traynor, his intended bride, have survied a dangerous attack which almost cost them their lives. Now they are flying their wedding party to Hawaii for the ceremony. Everything is going well until they board the plane and Ginger discovers that Ray Clyde, the man responsible for her retirement, is Graham's best man. Then Rick Fenrow, the man who almost killed Willow escapes from prison, and even in Hawaii, they are not safe from his plans for revenge.
Lots of character conflict, an exotic setting, plenty of romance, and great suspense. As usual, Hannah Alexander delivers an exciting, tightly woven story.
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Natalie Choates classic book Life and Death Planning for Retirement Benefits, now in its fifth edition, has been an indispensable reference for estate planners since 1996. The book covers every aspect of retirement benefits that estate planners need to know: how the minimum distribution rules work (during life and after death), and how they affect planning decisions (Chapter 1); how plan distributions are taxed, including special income tax deals your client may qualify for (Chapter 2); what payout options are available for a surviving spouse, child, estate, trust, or other person or entity named as beneficiary; and all aspects of Roth retirement plans (Chapter 5). Miss Choate explains spousal rollovers, federal spousal rights in retirement plans, and special marital deduction rules applicable to retirement benefits (all in Chapter 3); how to advise beneficiaries who inherit a plan and how to fix a noncomplying trust (Chapter 10); and the unique tax and other rules that apply to life insurance held in a retirement plan (Chapter 8). There is a full chapter on what to do if the plan-owners spouse is not a U.S. citizen (Chapter 4). No other resource has as much detail on that topic--or on disclaimers of retirement benefits (Chapter 8), trusts as beneficiaries of retirement plans (Chapter 6), pre-age 59½ distributions (Chapter 9), or charitable giving with retirement benefits (Chapter 7). You will also find full details on the little questions you face in dealing with clients retirement benefits: the income tax withholding rules, grandfather rules that may enrich your client, the IRD deduction, rollover rules, and how to compute the penalty for missing a minimum distribution. Case studies, forms, and tables complete this 550-page book. As a former ERISA lawyer and full time estate planner, Natalie Choate is uniquely qualified to explain these complex assets in language estate planners can understand.
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a really awesome practical guide to settling an estate.......2005-02-07
its confusing when someone passes away as it was for me, but of all the books i looked through, this one was the best in terms of telling it very simple language how to get all of a persons affairs in order from a-z, from the moment the person passes (taking care of the funeral arrangements) to executing a will and avoiding pitfalls. definitely recommend.
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Almost unknown by evangelical Christians today, Juan de Vald?s and Don Benedetto were Italian Reformers who penned what are probably the two most significant works of the Italian Reformation: One Hundred and Ten Considerations and On the Benefit of Jesus Christ, Crucified. Both writers protested not merely against the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church, as Martin Luther did, but went further to challenge the Italian humanism of the Renaissance. While John Calvin's Institutes richly teach the doctrine of the atonement by faith, the thought of Juan de Vald?s reflects more of a struggle and debate among a group of friends about how the experience of justification by faith is actually lived out. The writings of Don Benedetto develop similar ideas about the centrality of Christ's death, and the role that assurance and joy play in the Christian life.
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Justification.......2004-05-29
I have never read a book that makes Justification a reality of spiritual life and connects it with sanctification in a very simple and understandable way. I definitely recommend as a devotional to understand Christ and His work.
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