• Wills let you provide for your family, friends and charities, name someone to care for your children, and appoint an executor to carry out your wishes.
• Health Care Directives let you control your medical care when you are unable.  Create a Living Will to get the care you want and spare your family turmoil at the end of life.  Make a Health Care Power of Attorney to permit a loved one to make important medical decisions in case you can't.
• Financial Powers of Attorney let you name someone you trust to take care of finances if you are unable to yourself.
• Final Arrangements smooth the way for your family, letting them know your preferences regarding burial, cremation and even the memorial services you want.
• Executor Documents help the person you choose to handle your estate do the job right.

You’ll also get dozens of helpful every day 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.

Let WillMaker help you do it right.  so easy to use, anyone can make an estate plan.  And so reliable, lawyers use it too.

• Legal Will
• Living Will
• Powers of Attorney
• Personal Finance and Home and Family Documents
• Plus 10 Estate Planning, Finance and Retirement Resources
  • Make Your Own Living Trust
  • The Executor's Guide
  • Estate Planning for Blended Families
  • Plan Your Estate
  • Nolo's Crash Course in Estate Planning Basic
  • IRAs, 401(k)s and Other Retirement Plans
  • Long-Term Care
  • Easy Ways to Lower Your Taxes
  • 101 Law Forms for Personal Use
  • Your Little Legal Companion

• The difference between a will and a living trust
• How to choose a guardian for your child 
• The best ways to leave money for a child
• How to make a smart life insurance decisions
• What are medical directives and powers of attorney
• How to keep your estate plan safe and up to date

101 Law Forms for Personal Use (Free eBook with online registration)

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 & remodeling and many more.

• Bills of sale for buying and selling personal property
• Promissory notes for lending and borrowing money
• Contracts for in-home child care
• Releases to settle disputes
• Notices for dealing with telemarketers
• Contracts for home repair and remodeling

Make Your Own Living Trust(eBook inside)

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.

• Create various living trusts, including an AB trust (also known as a "bypass trust")
• Transfer assets to your trust, including real estate, stocks and bonds, jewelry, art or a small business
• Name beneficiaries for all trust property
• Sign your document and make it legal
• Appoint someone to manage property left to minors or young adults 
• Provide for trust property management if you become incapacitated
• Retain absolute control over trust property while you live

The Executor’s Guide (eBook inside)

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.

• Prepare for the job of executor or trustee
• Claim life insurance, Social Security and other benefits
• Make sense of a will
• Determine whether probate is necessary
• Deal with family members
• Handle trusts
• Work with lawyers, appraisers and other experts

Plan Your Estate (eBook inside)

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.

• Wills
• Probate and how to avoid it
• Naming guardians for children
• Leaving property to children
• Estate taxes and how to reduce them
• Living wills (health care directives)
• Financial powers of attorney
• Final arrangements
• Strategies for business owners

IRAs, 401(k)s & Other Retirement Plans (eBook inside)

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.

• When to take out your money
• Tax strategies before and at the age of retirements
• Penalties for taking early distribution and how to reduce or avoid them
• Required minimum distributions
• Distributions to your heirs

Easy Ways to Lower Your Taxes (eBook inside)

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.

• Get a lower tax rate
• Boost your tax-free income
• Defer paying your taxes
• Make the most of deductions
• Take advantage of exemptions
• Identify and use credits
• Shift income to other taxpayers - legally

Estate Planning for Blended Families (eBook inside)

Find out 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.

• Identifying goals and concerns
• Discussing matters with your spouse
• Planning for all children involved
• Estate and gift taxes in a second marriage
• Choosing executors, trustees and guardians
• Working with lawyers, financial planners and other experts

Long-Term Care - How to Plan and Play for It (eBook inside)

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.

• Evaluate long-term care insurance
• Arrange home care
• Explore options beyond nursing homes
• Choose a nursing facility
• Get the most out of Medicare, Medicaid and other benefit programs
• Recognize and prevent elder fraud

Your Little Legal Companion (bonus paperbook inside)

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!

• Legal Will
• Health Care Directives (Living Will and Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care)
• Durable Power of Attorney for Finances - Final Arrangements
• Executor Forms
• Information for Caregivers and Survivors

Personal Finance Documents

• Promissory Notes
• Security Agreement
• General Bill of Sale
• Notice to Terminate Joint Credit Card Account
• Limited Power of Attorney for Finances
• Revocation of Power of Attorney

Home and Family Documents

• Child Care Agreement
• Child Care Instructions
• Elder Care Agreement
• Pet Care Agreement
• Authorization to Drive a Motor Vehicle
• Authorization for Foreign Travel with Minor
• Authorization for Minor's Medical Treatment
• Housesitting Instructions
• Housekeeping Services Agreement