Finance ✦ Penny’s Take
Your Indiana Wills, Trusts, & Estates Explained Simply
Linda C. Ashar · 2011
60/100
👍 Worth It
Attorney Linda Ashar covers the full estate-planning toolkit—wills, trusts, beneficiary designations, advance directives—in plain language designed for non-lawyers. The Indiana specificity is exactly the point for residents of that state, but it also means this book has zero value anywhere else, and a 2011 publication date leaves more than a decade of law changes uncovered. Indiana residents with straightforward estates will find it a useful first pass; everyone else should keep looking.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety85
Substance / usefulness61
Craft & writing66
Originality36
Evidence & accuracy75
Hype vs delivers65
Age-fit71
👁 Human-eye gut-check58
Penny’s verdict60
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