Quicken Willmaker Plus: Estate Planning Essentials [With CDROM]

by Shae Irving

Book Overview

No one wants to hire expensive lawyers to make a will and other important documents--so point your readers to This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 141330527X
• ISBN13: 9781413305272
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: NOLO
• Length: 539 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Simplicity at it's finest!

Since the more comprehensive reviewers here have already covered the features of Willmaker Plus 2007, I will only add a little opinion and a heep of praise to Quicken, for teaming up with Nolo in making this incredibly easy to use yet powerful program. I must admit that I am not the sharpest tool in the shed, but I was able to create a simple Will without even opening the book because of the very easy to use step by step format. Legal jargon is explained brilliantly in laymans terms. This program is truly idiot proof! Wills, Powers of Attorney for health care & finances along with other legal documents are the most important yet often neglected documents a person must deal with in life. Becoming incapacitated or dying without these documents in place can leave your loved ones with a real legal nightmare. Completing my Will & Powers of Attorney and putting all of my important papers like deeds, titles, financial statements and insurance policies, in one place (known to loved ones) has given me tremendous peace of mind in knowing that my loved ones will have a much easier time resolving all of the legal matters if I become incapacitated or when I die.

Great product, just go to the notary, or have friends!

I have created a Will and a living will with this handy program. The book that comes with it is quite extensive, but the instructions are also viewed with each page you create. It guides you through the process and is really easy. The only problem is, when you are done with the document, you actually need to take action, and have someone witness your signature, and you need to have some documents notarized. It is a process you must do, or some of the documents you create are useless. Don't be lazy like me, get it done, and forget about it! In addition to wills and estate planning, it also has common legal documents, like things for pet sitters, credit history requests, and authorizations for temporary guardianships for minors. It is quite the package!

Updates with latest laws mean always up-to-date legal documents.

Great software. Simple to use. The legal team at Quicken/NOLO appear to constantly be surveying the legal findings in the courts and automaticly push the implications into the software as updates. The best part is that as the laws change, the software alerts you when you need to reprint and resign your legal documents so that they comply with the latest laws. It is the perfect balance of accurate legal advice at a very fair price.

Book and software

This "book" is basically a printed user's guide to the Quicken Willmaker Plus 2006 software, which is included on the accompanying CD-ROM. That is, you get the software itself and a thick printed guide, not a bad deal at all. The guide is actually more than just a manual; instead it gives you a lot of background information on property rights, wills, living wills, living trusts, estate planning, etc. I think this is a better bundle than the software itself which doesn't even come with a printed manual.

Everything You Wanted to Know about Wills

When I've gone to lawyers to have paperwork done such as wills, I've had the idea that they have a standard form in their word processing system. First they talk to you (at $100+ per hour) and ask you a bunch of questions. I think your answers are used to fill in the blanks in their word processing system. Now there are computer programs like this one that take a particular area of the law and produce the forms you need. This one is obviously oriented to wills (duh, look at the name), it includes legal wills, living trusts, health care directives (living wills) powers of attorney, final arrangements documents, and forms for executors. Because it is a commercial product, it has been produced to the highest possible standards (for fear of law suits). Note: Do not use this product in Louisiana which bases its legal system on the Napoleanic code rather than English Common Law.