Out here in CA you can keep the Government from getting part of your Estate due to Probate; with a Living or Revocable Trust and a Pour (spelling?) Over Will. In the case of My Mother it was needed to list Me on the Deed to Her House.

The Pour Over Will take up the loose ends if you aquire something that is not in the other documents.

That represents what I and My Family did. Anyone doing these things should research them. There is likely internet sites and books on the subject.

Oddly our the Present Governor of CA Jerry Brown did away with the Inhertiance Tax the first time He was Governor back in the early 1970s. But, there is still Probate.

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