Finance ✦ Penny’s Take
Plan Your Estate
Denis Clifford · 2022
79/100
👍 Worth It
Sixteen editions over decades, a Columbia Law School-trained author, and Nolo's long-established credibility in legal self-help add up to one of the strongest consumer estate planning guides available. At 528 pages it covers the full territory — wills, trusts, probate, taxes, business succession, healthcare directives — in plain language that readers consistently call genuinely educational. The main caveat is that it covers national law, so a local attorney should still handle state-specific nuances.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety81
Substance / usefulness81
Craft & writing79
Originality35
Evidence & accuracy82
Hype vs delivers71
Age-fit81
👁 Human-eye gut-check79
Penny’s verdict79
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