Finance ✦ Penny’s Take
Estate Planning Made Easy
Herbert F. Starr · 1989
42/100
👎 Skip It
This 1989 fill-in-the-blank estate guide had a genuine strength: it made probate avoidance accessible to ordinary people without a lawyer. But 37 years of tax law changes — EGTRRA, portability rules, annual threshold indexing — have made its specific IRS worksheets and state fee charts dangerously stale. Treat it as a conceptual primer only, never a form you file.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety85
Substance / usefulness52
Craft & writing68
Originality35
Evidence & accuracy45
Hype vs delivers55
Age-fit62
👁 Human-eye gut-check55
Penny’s verdict42
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