Trial & Heirs: Famous Fortune Fights! Danielle & Andy

TRIAL & HEIRS:

FAMOUS FORTUNE FIGHTS!

This creatively crafted, celebrity infused, common sense HOW TO (and HOW NOT TO) book combines real-life inheritance catastrophes, courtroom clashes and combative estate contests with practical, easy-to-follow advice on how to avoid them in your own family!

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A MUST READ

The highly publicized estate battles of celebrities cast a bright spotlight on the importance of having the proper estate planning. You’ll have a front row seat in the courtroom while Trial & Heirs: Famous Fortune Fights! replays the “tabloid drama” and points out what went wrong in these riveting cases. Danielle & Andy are your guides – with research and court records in one hand, and juicy celebrity stories in the other.

These include Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Ted Kennedy, Princess Di, Anna Nicole Smith, Heath Ledger, Ray Charles, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Sinatra, Martin Luther King, Jr., Brooke Astor, Rosa Parks … and many others!

This easy-to-follow guide is complete with Tips to Avoid a Family Fight and Ideas to Spark Family Discussion. The tips alone could save you thousands (or more!) in legal fees.

Discover how to steer clear of the same celebrity estate errors as you plan for your heirs.

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Motivate you and your loved ones to create a proper estate plan
Start productive family discussions with spouses, parents, loved ones, and clients
Protect your rights if you have a loved one who is aging or has passed away and you’re concerned about being treated fairly
Navigate through difficult and emotional family fights that can result when the proper planning wasn’t done
Safeguard the true wishes of a mature loved one in case someone attempts to take advantage of them
Help you and your family answer questions about the right way to administer an estate or trust
Ensure that your wishes and the wishes of your loved ones are protected
Find a good estate planning and/or probate attorney

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Everyone who has read [Trial & Heirs] has pledged to get their financial affairs in order."

—The Washington Post

I just finished reading your book and I found it to be educational and funny too.

— Yvonne Harris Burnley, Daughter of the Late Jazz Saxophonist Eddie Harris

[Trial & Heirs] is by far the most educational and clever book I have read in a long time. While not in the genre of the typical book for “dummies,” it is written in a manner that will keep trust novices, as well as seasoned professionals, interested until the very end.

Kim Fowler, ABA Banking Journal

If TMZ and Bankrate.com had a literary baby, it would be Trial & Heirs. Trial & Heirs manages to accomplish a stunning trifecta of near impossibilities for a book about estate planning. Not only does it entertain, it deeply educates and also galvanizes readers into taking action to protect their families and their legacies.

—Tara-Nicholle Nelson, Inman News Service

Whether you pick up the book for a peek at the messed up estates of celebrities or you desire to learn more about this topic for yourself, it’s a great introduction to a subject most of us are reluctant to discuss. This is also a great book for financial planners, attorneys and other professionals to give to their clients who don’t have a will or trust.

—Cathy Severson, Retirement Life Matters

I can think of few things as important or relevant for people to know about than the failure to execute a game plan for their end of life desires. I have witnessed far too many family feuds resulting in lifelong animosity that could have simply been avoided...Trial & Heirs is a must read.

—Danny Fontana, Fox Business Channel Contributor - Radio Talk Show Host

I happened upon your website and find it so interesting! I sent it to some of my fellow teachers and said it's right up my alley - People magazine meets law. Just what I love.

—Ann M., Associate Professor Gonzaga University School of Law

Very easy for the common person to understand and benefit from all the good advice. Common sense with a sense of humor!

—Karen Baldwin producer of the film RAY: The Ray Charles Story

Trial & Heirs is both entertaining and informative. A must if you want to avoid family squabbles.

—Mark Joseph, The Huffington Post

Trial & Heirs is an important book for anybody who wants to avoid the inheritance troubles that have plagued Hollywood stars for decades.

—Michael Levine, Prominent Hollywood Publicist and Best-selling Author

Consider buying the book in bulk as gifts for your clients or as a marketing tool; remember, an informed client is a better client, and a client who understands some of your language is one who is easier to talk to.

—Jane Siegel, Michigan Bar Journal

It’s so well written and fun that even a person like me, who hates money talk, can enjoy it.

—Carol Bradley Bursack, Minding Our Elders

In their book Trial & Heirs, Danielle and Andrew Mayoras...chronicle the lessons learned from notorious estate battles of Hollywood celebrities, rock stars, athletes and political figures...As the Mayorases put it in their book: “the only good legal battle is one that never happens.”

—The Sacramento Bee

Errors involving celebrity estates can motivate everyday families to talk ahead of time about who gets Mom’s blown-glass collection – long before things get overblown...Trial & Heirs and the blog show how anyone can mess things up when it comes to giving away their wealth after death.

—Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press

Trial & Heirs offers a much needed perspective to keep you thinking...and directing a course for success as you do your estate planning.

—Rick Eldridge, CEO ReelWorks Studios, Producer of “The Ultimate Gift,” and “Bobby Jones: Stroke Of Genius”

Great book, and lots and lots of fun-like a good movie. Don’t miss it, if you can!

—Ken Wales, producer of Amazing Grace, Revenge of the Pink Panther, and the TV series East of Eden

By taking estate cases of famous people and boiling them down to situations to which readers can relate, this book belongs in the library of every American over the age of 18.

—Lisa Allmendinger, Heritage Newspapers

Trial & Heirs is so engaging, it inspires people to get down to business.

—Kimberly Nicoletti, Summit Daily News

"Consider buying the book in bulk as gifts for your clients or as a marketing tool; remember, an informed client is a better client, and a client who understands some of your language is one who is easier to talk to.”

—Jane Siegel, Michigan Bar Journal

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—Jane Siegel, Michigan Bar Journal

CAN YOU IMAGINE…

Setting up a trust for your children and loved ones to keep your affairs private, only to let the plan fail because your trust wasn’t funded?

MICHAEL JACKSON

Writing instructions to give property worth millions to your cherished godchildren, and then having those wishes completely ignored and kept secret?

PRINCESS DIANA

Leaving a substantial legacy from a brilliant musical career, only to have your family members wage a lengthy legal battle over it neary forty years after your death?

JIMI HENDRIX

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