Instead of leaving a financial and emotional burden on loved ones, wouldn`t you rather prepare for the eventuality of your own death so that they have what they need and don`t have to deal with a legal mess? In No One Should Have an Unplanned Death, Barry Seltzer provides readers with everything they need to know about making these difficult choices. Seltzer also answers such common questions as how to divide the estate among children, disinheriting children, second spouses and tax issues as they affect Canadians. To illustrate the material, comical and strange stories are interspersed within each section. Included is the story of the willmaker who asked that his body be turned into a candle and be delivered after dark with a note declaring his burning devotion to the woman who had jilted him.

No One Should Have an Unplanned Death: One of a Series of Books on Estate Planning

Seltzer, Barry

Prism Publishing Inc.

Treated like members of the family, pets are increasingly included in their owners wills often much to the dismay of human relatives who find themselves snubbed in favor of the deceased s four-legged best friend. Recently, heiress Gail Posner left a $3-million (all figures U.S.) trust fund and her $8.3-million Miami Beach mansion to her three dogs, Conchita, April Maria and Lucia. (She also left $27-million to her maids, bodyguards and personal trainer.) Her only child, who received $1-million, is challenging the will in court. While eccentric millionaires go to extremes, making sure your pets are cared for after you die is becoming more common. Fat Cats and Lucky Dogs is intended to be a vehicle for sharing information and ideas; for providing guidance to those who would like to explore various possibilities; and for stimulating pet owners to take action while they are able to do so. Planning in advance for a pet s well being if a pet s caretaker becomes incapacitated or they predecease them is essential. Fat Cats and Lucky Dogs addresses this important topic for everyone concerned with a companion animal s care and for all animal lovers and serves to provide this valuable information to all those who want and need it. Barry Seltzer (a practicing lawyer with 30 years experience in the area of estate planning) and Professor of Estate Law Gerry W. Beyer are both animal lovers and hope to encourage as many people as possible who care for pets to ensure they plan and provide for their pet s (and their family s) well being before they are not able to do so for whatever reason.

FAT CATS & LUCKY DOGS: How To Leave (Some Of) Your Estate To Your Pet

Gerry W. Beyer

Barry Seltzer

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Find out how attorneys and judges of this world really earn their daily bread. There is the judge whose amorous proclivities excluded no one, not even the rest of the court. How about the attorney who spent an entire night in the overly intimate embrace of a condom machine. 
Even when attorneys are working hard...how serious can you be about a one-eyed man who sues a movie theatre, claiming he should only pay half the admission price because he can only see half the movie? 
Or the woman who sues after her successful heart transplant, claiming her sudden embarrassing urges to do somersaults and backflips at inappropriate times are due to the heart she received from a 24 year old motorcycle victim, who happened to be a circus acrobat. 
There are light moments everywhere in the law courts of the land and Eric Chodak and Barry Seltzer have put together a collection of some of the more unusual, funny and bizarre gems.

It Takes 2 Judges to Try a Cow & Other Strange Legal Twists

Humor & Entertainment

Eric Chodak/Barry Seltzer

Humor

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