With the Books UnBound Library Collection: Estate, Probate, and Elder Law, you get all the State Bar of Wisconsin PINNACLE® Books UnBound™ titles you need in one focused online library. Whether you’re a seasoned practitioner, learning the fundamentals, or in need of a refresher, this extensive collection of resources is designed to help you tackle estate planning, probate, and elder law issues effectively and efficiently. Experience convenient online access to a diverse range of titles covering the essentials, written by experienced Wisconsin practitioners.
Explore the titles included in the library:
Eckhardt’s Workbook for Wisconsin Estate Planners
Eckhardt’s Workbook for Wisconsin Estate Planners demystifies the increasingly complex and difficult subject of estate planning. This best-selling resource encompasses decades of expertise from Wisconsin’s most respected estate planning lawyers and covers every aspect of estate planning. The Workbook starts with the basics, including client intake, the attorney-client relationship, and document drafting. From there, you’ll explore more complex issues such as nonprobate transfers, wills with and without trusts, and marital property agreements.
Whether you’re a Wisconsin lawyer, trust officer, life insurance underwriter, financial planner, accountant, or educator, the Workbook is an essential addition to your library.
Marital Property Law and Practice in Wisconsin
Tackle questions about marital property matters with Marital Property Law and Practice in Wisconsin. This streamlined treatise is loaded with practical tips for navigating Wisconsin’s marital property system and contains handy practice aids, including sample forms and agreements, court documents, flowcharts, tables, and more. Marital Property Law & Practice in Wisconsin is a vital resource for any lawyer practicing tax law, family law, estate planning, bankruptcy, or creditor-debtor law.
The Marital Property Classification Handbook
Navigating Wisconsin’s Marital Property Act can be tricky, even though it’s been in place for decades. The Marital Property Classification Handbook offers a comprehensive explanation of the fundamental principles for classifying marital property. Take the guesswork out of classification questions with the Handbook’s easy-to-follow five-step process. From individual and marital property to unclassified and mixed property, the Handbook provides clarity on marital property conundrums.
Wisconsin Probate System: Forms and Procedures Handbook
Wisconsin Probate System: Forms and Procedures Handbook is your practical guide to both informal and formal probate and summary procedures. You’ll find a comprehensive summary of Wisconsin probate law along with the sample forms, letters, checklists, and other practice aids you need to successfully probate an estate. With its direct approach and fact-based scenarios, the Handbook helps simplify the information-gathering process and maximize your communications with clients. You’ll appreciate how it lists all the steps you need to take and reproduces the required forms. Whether you’re new to probate practice or an experienced practitioner looking to refine your skills, you’ll find the answers you’re seeking plus time-saving practice tools in Wisconsin Probate System: Forms and Procedures Handbook.
Wisconsin Judicial Benchbook Vol. V: Probate, Guardianship, and Mental Health
Written by a committee of experienced judges and court commissioners, this volume of the valuable Wisconsin Judicial Benchbook series delivers the essential rules, citations, and commentary you need to handle probate, guardianship, and mental health issues, in an easy-to-use format. Learn conventional probate procedures and probate alternatives and deepen your understanding of the basic rules of intestate succession and trust modifications. Become familiar with the procedures for protective services and guardianships, the rules for involuntary and voluntary mental commitments, and much more.
Advising Older Clients and Their Families Vol. I
Elevate your elder law practice with the insights from Wisconsin’s top elder law attorneys you’ll find throughout Advising Older Clients and Their Families Vol. I. This comprehensive volume, tailored specifically to Wisconsin lawyers, offers invaluable guidance on protecting clients’ rights and interests and fostering strong client relationships. The book also includes practice pointers, charts, forms, and other essential practice tools. Written and reviewed by more than 60 of Wisconsin’s premier elder law attorneys, Advising Older Clients is a must-have for any elder law practitioner.
Advising Older Clients and Their Families Vol. II
Volume II of Advising Older Clients features comprehensive coverage of the key cases, statutes, and regulations affecting the most dynamic areas of elder practice, including veterans' health-care benefits, long-term care programs and facilities, Medicare and Medicaid benefits. Find answers to your questions on planning for health-care decision-making, guardianship, and protective placement, and estate planning issues for older clients. Better understand the breadth and depth of issues in elder law with help from Advising Older Clients and Their Families Vol. II.
The Guardian ad Litem Handbook
Whether you’re looking for guidance on the basics of serving as guardian ad litem, or you need in-depth help with more complex issues, you’ll find it in The Guardian ad Litem Handbook. Wisconsin’s most comprehensive guide for GALs, it’s packed with step-by-step instructions and guidelines to help you understand the nature of GAL work and the range of roles GALs perform. It includes detailed instructions for handling various types of procedures as a GAL, as well as helpful techniques for GALs to use when conducting client interviews. Confidently handle both the procedural and personal sides of your next GAL case with guidance from The Guardian ad Litem Handbook.
Guardianship and Protective Placement for Older Adults in Wisconsin
Adults aged 65 and older are the fastest-growing segment of Wisconsin’s population, which means there are more people every day who may be in need of protection. Guardianship and Protective Placement for Older Adults in Wisconsin is a thorough guide to law and practice under the guardianship and protective placement statutes, and it explains the basics in practical terms — with accompanying checklists to keep you organized. Sharpen your skills in this vital area with Guardianship and Protective Placement for Older Adults in Wisconsin.