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Binding: CD-ROM Brand: Nolo EAN: 0093371371619 Feature: Create the following documents in minutes - Format: CD-ROM Label: Nolo Press Manufacturer: Nolo Press Model: WQP10R Platform: Windows Vista Publisher: Nolo Press Release Date: 2009-09-04 Studio: Nolo Press
Features
Create the following documents in minutes - Will Health Care Directive - Living Will, Health Care Power of Attorney Financial Powers of Attorney Final Arrangements Document
Write your will with America's No. 1 estate planning software!
Help protect your family and your assets, and save on legal fees! Quicken WillMaker Plus 2010 provides the legal forms you need to create an effective estate plan. So comprehensive, the software assembles your forms from among 40,000 document possibilities -- but so easy to use, you'll have them finished in minutes.
PLUS! When you register your software, you'll receive a coupon to create a living trust for only $1. And, as a special bonus, download a free copy of our bestseller, Estate Planning Basics.
Simply launch Quicken WillMaker Plus 2010 and create the following documents in minutes:
Will
Health Care Directive:
Living Will
Health Care Power of Attorney~
Financial Powers of Attorney
Final arrangements document
Important documents for executors
The software also provides forms you can use every day, such as authorizations and agreements, promissory notes, and child and elder care forms.
For each document, Quicken WillMaker Plus 2010 takes you through a step-by-step interview. If you have any questions, simply check out the comprehensive onscreen legal manual. Expert tech support is also available. And, your completed documents will automatically reflect the laws of your state*.
Need to know more? Here are in-depth details about what you can do with Quicken WillMaker Plus 2010:
Your Will
Provide for family, friends and charities. Name a personal guardian to care for young children. Specify the executor (or "personal representative") of your estate. Select a trusted person to manage property left to young people. Revise and update your will whenever you like.
Your Health Care Directive lets people who care for you make important decisions about your life and health when you can't. Create a:
Health Care Power of Attorney
Permit a loved one to make important medical decisions for you if you are unable to do so yourself.
Living Will
Specify whether you want your life prolonged through artificial means. Appoint someone to make sure your wishes are carried out.
Your Financial Power of Attorney
Name someone to make your financial decisions, in case you are medically incapacitated. Don't worry, you can grant as much authority as you wish.
Your Final Arrangements
Plan a funeral or other ceremony. Clarify whether you want a cremation or burial. Select someone to oversee your final arrangements -- and more!
Documents for Your Executor
Make sure your executor (or "personal representative" in some states) has all the forms and instructions he or she needs to do the job: Checklists, letters, notices, claim forms -- and more.
Personal Finance Documents
Over a dozen forms that let you handle financial situations you might face on any given day, such as lending or borrowing money between friends or family, creating bills of sale, ending a credit card account~-- and more!
Home & Family Documents
Whether you need to authorize someone to travel with your child to another country, want to lend your car to a friend, or create an agreement with a trusted person to take care of your elderly parent, Quicken WillMaker Plus 2010 can handle all these family situations -- and many more!
*Estate planning documents not valid in Louisiana.
Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating: Summary: Thanks to other reviewers Comment: I have an earlier version of Willmaker and found it to be very helpful. I was planning to purchase the 2010 version so as to have the latest version to finish a living trust I started using the software I now have. After reading the other reviews I find this would have been a mistake. Thanks for the reviews. I would have bought software that would have been of no use to me otherwise. Customer Rating: Summary: Easy to use Comment: This software only took about 15 minutes to set it up. Once I had all the information that I wanted in the will it was easy to review and print. Quicken Willmaker Plus 2010 Customer Rating: Summary: RIP OFF -- DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT Comment: I have purchased "Willmaker" every year since 2004. Every freaking year. I only use it for drafting living trusts. I purchased the 2010 version when it came out without closely inspecting the box. I just discovered that it no longer includes the living trust documents. I consider that a rip off -- there should be something on the box to call attention to the fact that the basic features of the former product have changed. I read Nolo's response that "Willmaker" was a misnomer and that they wanted to split the product into two products." One slight problem -- no one who owns a home should be making a will -- anyone who owns a home or has any assets should be doing a living trust. This product is completely useless for anyone having any assets. Oh, Nolo --- "Willmaker" has become synonymous with living trust software - hardly anyone uses it for wills. Kind of like "Chevrolet" is synonymous with "car having an engine." I want to see Chevy sell a car without an engine and then say, oops, so sad, gotta buy the engine separately. Buncha crooks - what goes around comes around, Nolo and Intuit..... Customer Rating: Summary: No Trust Documents Comment: I have been using WillMaker since 2006 I believe. I've found quite a few documents that have come in very handy over the years. I'm not ready to create a trust for my family and assets and tada! 2010 doesn't contain ANY trust documents. Very disappointing since it's the same price as years past but has less info. Customer Rating: Summary: A good product doesn't justify deception Comment: I have been recommending Willmaker Plus for years to friends and clients needing basic estate documents. Now, I'll need to carefully investigate every new version of every Quicken product to be sure they haven't quietly removed key features. For someone just needing a will, health care directive, and financial power of attorney, the product is probably as good as ever, which is excellent. For someone planning to make a living trust, make sure to buy version 9, not 10, because they have removed this feature while designing their product box, description, and advertising without any mention of the fact. That there are now some suspicious 5-star ratings from brand new reviewers only serves to lower their credibility even more.
Living trusts are important probate avoidance tools for those owning real estate and useful for those who might become incapacitated in the future and want an easy transfer of management, and many people have bought this product for these purposes in the past: I know several such people. Transfer of death registration does not offer the ability to transfer management before death, and isn't available for certain important assets.
Apparently, they plan to come out with a Living Trust Maker in the future, but it isn't available now, and even it won't have the same features as the living trust module in version 9, since it will be missing the AB Trust. Make sure you are aware of THAT removal before buying the new product when it comes out.
Let the buyer beware. I hate to issue a 1-star rating on a product which, for the reduced functions it provides, is probably as good as ever, but if you buy version 10 of a product and find, after purchase, that it does less than version 9, you'll be as angry as the other 1-star posters on this product. Quicken, just be honest and label this product Quicken Willmaker Plus BASIC, or in some other way not create the impression of a continuation of a product. And since you know quite well previous users will assume the continued presence of the living trust module, make sure they know that upgrading is actually a downgrade.
