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Quicken WillMaker Premium 2010 | 
| From: Nolo Press
Category: Software
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 58
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Premium
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 1.4
MPN: 37213
Model: WQP10R4
UPC: 093371372630
EAN: 0093371372630
ASIN: B00334NKQG
Release Date: January 18, 2010
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| Features:
| | Estate-planning software makes it easy to create customized legal documents | | | Create Legal Wills, Living Wills, Powers of Attorney, personal-finance documents, and more | | | 10 additional estate-planning, retirement, finance, and family-care resources | | | Includes 2 audio CDs--Stopping Identity Theft and The Busy Family's Guide to Money | | | Comprehensive online legal manual; free legal updates keep documents current through 2010 |
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Product Description
* Estate planning documents not valid in Louisiana.
PLUS: Nolo understands that protection and planning reach beyond the scope of the estate plan, so Quicken WillMaker Premium 2010 provides 10 additional estate planning, retirement, finance and family care resources to keep you and your loved ones covered:
Make Your Own Living Trust (eBook)
When you create a living trust your property bypasses lengthy probate proceedings and goes directly to the people you've designated. This eBook shows you how to create various living trusts, transfer assets to your trust, including real estate, name beneficiaries for all trust property, and much more.
The Executor's Guide (eBook)
A Nolo bestseller, The Executor's Guide provides the legal and practical information you need at a difficult time so you can get organized and get the job done. Find out how to make sense of a will, claim life insurance, Social Security & other benefits, deal with family members and work with professionals.
Plan Your Estate (eBook)
Plan Your Estate untangles the complexities of estate planning, covering everything from basic wills to sophisticated tax strategies. It explains wills, how to leave property to children, and much more.
IRAs, 401(k)s & Other Retirement Plans (eBook)
Easy Ways to Lower Your Taxes (eBook)
Estate Planning for Blended Families (eBook)
Long-Term Care (eBook)
Nolo's Crash Course in Estate Planning Basics (audio)
101 Law Forms for Personal Use (eBook)
Your Little Legal Companion (book, paperback)
System Requirements:
* Processor: Pentium 400 MHz
* Operating System: Windows XP / Vista
* Memory: 512 MB RAM
* Hard Disk Space: 22 MB (29 MB to install)
* Drive: CD-ROM, 2X speed
* Miscellaneous: 56 Kbps modem required to access online features; Any printer supported by Windows XP / Vista; Microsoft Explorer 6.0 or higher; Adobe Reader (optional)
Amazon.com Product Description
Quicken WillMaker Premium 2010 combines America's top estate-planning software with 10 important estate-planning, family, and retirement resources so you can protect your family and assets, and save on legal fees. Quicken WillMaker Premium 2010 provides the legal forms required to create an effective estate plan. Just launch the software, follow a simple, guided, step-by-step interview, and in 30 minutes or less you can create the following documents, customized to suit your unique circumstances and reflect the laws of your state*: - Legal Will
- Health Care Directive (Living Will and Health Care Power of Attorney)
- Financial Powers of Attorney
- Final Arrangements
You'll also get dozens of helpful, everyday personal-finance forms and home-and-family documents, such as child, elder, and pet-care agreements and authorizations for minor's medical treatment and foreign travel. Free legal updates keep your documents current through 2010. And if you get stuck along the way, the program's comprehensive yet plain-English online legal manual is just a click away. Bonus! WillMaker Premium includes two audio CDs: - Stopping Identity Theft: from shopping safely--online and off--to avoiding the latest thieving techniques like phishing and skimming, this one-hour audio sampler offers simple, action-oriented advice for safeguarding your personal information.
- The Busy Family's Guide to Money: whether in need of a realistic budget or seeking to simplify investments, this one-hour audio sampler cuts to the chase, delivering practical and fast solutions to the most pressing financial issues your family faces.
Included! Bonus software lets you create your own valid, living trust, tailored to the laws of your state. Make a living trust and spare your family the hassle and expense of probate. Plus: Nolo understands that protection and planning reach beyond the scope of the estate plan, so Quicken WillMaker Premium 2010 provides 10 additional estate-planning, retirement, finance, and family-care resources to keep you and your loved ones covered: - Make Your Own Living Trust (eBook)
When you create a living trust your property bypasses lengthy probate proceedings and goes directly to the people you've designated. This eBook shows you how to create various living trusts, transfer assets to your trust, including real estate, name beneficiaries for all trust property, and much more. - The Executor's Guide (eBook)
A Nolo bestseller, The Executor's Guide provides the legal and practical information you need at a difficult time so you can get organized and get the job done. Find out how to make sense of a will, claim life insurance, Social Security and other benefits, deal with family members, and work with professionals. - Plan Your Estate (eBook)
Plan Your Estate untangles the complexities of estate planning, covering everything from basic wills to sophisticated tax strategies. It explains wills, how to leave property to children, and much more. - IRAs, 401(k)s & Other Retirement Plans (eBook)
This eBook is your guide to making sense of all of the common retirement plans and government distribution rules. You'll learn when to take out your money, what the penalties are for taking early distribution (and how to reduce or avoid them), and much more. - Easy Ways to Lower Your Taxes (eBook)
With Easy Ways to Lower Your Taxes, you'll discover legitimate tactics and useful insights that will lower your tax bill without running you afoul with the IRS. Find out how to get a lower tax rate, boost your tax-free income, take advantage of exemptions, and identify and use credits. - Estate Planning for Blended Families (eBook)
Find out how to provide for your spouse as well as children from both your previous and current marriage. This eBook shows you how to discuss matters with your spouse, plan for all children involved, deal with estate and gift taxes in a second marriage, and more. - Long-Term Care (eBook)
Arranging long-term care for yourself or a loved one can leave you feeling isolated and overwhelmed with difficult decisions. This eBook will help you understand all of your options so you can find the best care you can afford. You'll learn how to evaluate long-term care insurance, arrange home care, explore options beyond nursing homes, and much more. - Nolo's Crash Course in Estate Planning Basics (audio)
Presented in a friendly audio format, this two-CD package provides concrete information and answers from Nolo's expert estate-planning attorneys. It covers the principles of estate planning, including the difference between a will and a living trust, medical directives and powers of attorney, how best to leave money to children, and keep your estate plan current. - 101 Law Forms for Personal Use (eBook)
Register your copy of WillMaker Premium 2010 and download a free copy of 101 Law Forms for Personal Use. This eBook includes a comprehensive selection of legally enforceable forms that cover common daily transactions, including bills of sale for buying and selling personal property, promissory notes for lending and borrowing money, contracts for home repair and remodeling, and many more. - Your Little Legal Companion (book, paperback)
Whether it's your first day on the job or your child's first day of school, Your Little Legal Companion is there with quick, practical, friendly, and even entertaining advice. Written by Nolo's expert legal editors, keep this book on your shelf or in your glove box! *Estate-planning documents not valid in Louisiana.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Worth its weight in $20 bills at least! August 2, 2010
T. Fischer (Sunny South)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I don't know how anyone could complain about this package; it's a sensational value for everything that you get. Indeed it would be cheap if all you needed-or-used was the Will-creation program, but it is much more than that.
I bought it solely to make wills for myself and my spouse, which we completed in maybe 15 minutes each. The process was easy to follow and to understand, and the legal help is typically Nolo i.e. straightforward and simple, yet complete. For our (admittedly unsophisticated) wills, this is so much better than using an attorney (which I have done in the past, for 10x the cost). Can't imagine why others complained of "hard to correct mistakes"--I think this is a *strong suit* of the program. You can very easily go-back and change anything you need to, until the final result is perfect.
My only (very minor) nitpick would be that while the program knows-and-includes proper legalities for my state, its instruction letter to the Executor was too generalized, and missed a state-specific point. So we won't use WillMaker's letter to our executor but instead modify and personalize it a bit more.
To have legal wills completed in literally a matter of minutes is truly remarkable. It took much longer to sign-and-notarize the documents than it did to prepare them! Next we will likely take advantage of the (included) Living Trust creation materials, which of course will mean new wills, but basic wills were so cheap-and-easy we are fully protected for now--very much a relief to have fixed our outdated wills! Thank you thank you Nolo Press/Intuit for making this product!!!
Lots of options, well organized and complete July 1, 2010
Comdet
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
My estate planning (if I can actually use such a grandiose word as "estate" when referring to my worldly possessions) is not complex - no children or other such situations that require more thought and effort. But I do want to ensure that things go smoothly when the inevitable happens, so I thought I'd give this a shot.
I'm familiar with the Nolo books and have always found them clear and helpful. Their software is much the same - it walks you through each step and there is ample information as to the meaning and implications of all the options, both built into the software as well as the accompanying book. Takes a while to grasp everything, but I found it to be highly understandable.
Can't say that using this software is enjoyable given that it forces you to think about your mortality, but it is nicely done and served my needs perfectly. Granted, if I had a more complex situation such as having children and wanting to set up trusts for them, I'd probably use this as a starting point to get things organized, and then take it to an attorney to ensure everything is properly set forth.
 WillmakerPro 2010 May 31, 2010
James Judge (Brooklyn, NY United States)
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
In my opinion, Intuit and their companies go too far with being sure that there is no attempt to copy or utilize the product. It is not cheap and you are pretty much forced into giving the company information to use the product.
Also, another thing on the same order; you cannot use the product unless you have the CD inserted in the CD drive any time you want to access the product. Pain in the neck.
Also not too much difference in this product vs. earlier versions for my usage.
Very easy to use! Premium came with 200 page book and 6 cd's !! March 7, 2010
Mike_in_Pennsylvania
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
Great product! Very turbo-taxy, wizard like. Super quick. I was able to do my will, power of attorney, living will in no time at all.
The premium flavor is totally worth the few extra bucks.
Sadly, just 1 week before, I purchased the Estates book from Nolo at B&N retail for $40. The e-book came free in this package. Darn!!
WillMaker Premium February 22, 2010
Deborah J. Merriam (NJ)
16 out of 26 found this review helpful
Very disappointed. The program does not calculate or give any information regarding the death taxes in the state of residence. Also, extremely difficult to make corrections.
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| Worthwhile Reading | Your 401k Account - An Annual Checkup
By Dee Marie
You probably perform a lot of tasks annually. Some of these tasks protect you, your family, or even your assets. These chores include visiting your doctor for an annual physical or cleaning the gutters on your house. Well, next time you're making your list of 'must-do's' be certain to include a checkup for your 401(k) plan on your list.
Your annual examination of your 401(k) plan should cover a few different aspects of your investment. You can check each one quickly by exploring your most recent account statement.
First, you should evaluate your contribution amount. Changes in your financial position over the past year could warrant an increase or decrease in the amount you put into your 401(k).
Receiving a raise at work is a great occasion to increase your retirement contribution. Changing your contribution amount isn't what matters here; it's taking the time to decide if you should make a change.
Next, you should take a look at your investment choices. A mutual fund that was outperforming its peers at this time last year may have tanked over the last twelve months. Although it's important to remember that you don't want to change your investment allocations too often, a regular examination of the funds you've chosen isn't excessive.
Finally, you should check on the way your investment options within your 401(k) are spread. Investing in four mutual funds, you might decide to put twenty-five percent of your account into each fund. However, if one fund grows more aggressively than another, at the end of the year you may have forty percent in one fund, ten percent in another, and twenty-five percent in each of the remaining two funds. Since financial experts sometimes advise that retirement accounts should be spread among many different types of investment, you may want to rebalance your account back to your original allocations of twenty-five percent in each fund.
Making changes to your 401(k) plan isn't something that should be taken lightly. Speak with your financial advisor if you aren't certain about the direction you should be taking. Regardless of the actions you decide to take, you'll feel better about your retirement plan after taking care of its annual maintenance.
Want to learn how to save more money? Head on over to http://NotMadeOfMoney.com/blog - Be sure to grab our RSS feed or sign up to receive email updates
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