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This could be the most important book you read. Simply open the free ebook (a pdf file) by clicking it. The book explains how to easily leave an inheritance in a manner that properly protects it. It also tells you what to do if someone has left an inheritance to you improperly, such as by leaving it in someone else's name in a safe deposit box.
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From the back cover
Imagine you're eighty-years-old. Your wife, ten years younger, is beginning to show signs of Alzheimer's. You don't want to leave her inheritance directly to her because you're afraid she'll be quickly swindled and left destitute. You don't have any other family. You can't leave the money to life-long friends your own age; they could die at anytime, too. So you leave the money in control of the best friend you have who is in his fifties. You die, thinking your wife will be taken care of; instead, your so called friend steals her entire inheritance, leaving a distraught seventy-year-old woman with Alzheimer's peniless. Now stop imagining.
Each year, thousands of Americans lose their inheritances to best friends. Today's seniors were born and raised in the Great Depression; many don't trust banks and keep their money in safe deposit boxes, often with a close friend's name on the box. When they die, the friend empties the entire box while the spouse deals with grief--"while you're greiving, they're thieving." Other Americans removed money from their bank accounts in fear of Y2K. Many haven't returned the money because interest after 9/11 is so low, why bother? Many African-American men refuse to use bank accounts because as recently as the 1970's, banks cheated them with fabricated fees.
Why don't we hear these stories? The friends-turned-culprits settle out of court, requiring non-disclosure agreements be signed and typically returning less than half the inheritance. The cycle continues and no one is the wiser.
In Who do you Trust, comedian Ian Coburn recalls the horrific tale of his own mother losing her inheritance to his stepfather's close, entrusted friend. Ian is the author of the surprise hit God is a Woman: Dating Disasters, which has been #1 in categories such as humor and relationships across the world. The book has also been translated into Russian (rare for the genre).
Ian not only shares several stories of lost inheritances; he also provides simple, clear strategies to avoid such loss yourself. He explains the laws and details what actions to take when someone dies. He offers foolproof tips on how to leave and protect an inheritance, which he thoroughly researched after his own mom's tragic experience. "No one should have to go through such loss, especially while already experiencing such horrible grief over the death of a life-long loved one," he writes.
A must read for anyone leaving or receiving an inheritance. Period.