Finance ✦ Penny’s Take
Your Living Trust & Estate Plan
Harvey J. Platt · 1995
60/100
👎 Skip It
Harvey Platt writes accessibly for a layperson audience and covers the full estate-planning landscape—trusts, wills, probate, insurance, special-needs planning—in language that actually makes sense. The built-in limitation is that estate law and tax thresholds shift with every legislative cycle, so the practical details depend heavily on whether a recent edition is in hand. Treat it as preparation for a conversation with your own attorney rather than a substitute for one.
✦ 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.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: Legal/tax specifics time-sensitive; verify edition currency. We still scored it 60; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety79
Substance / usefulness58
Craft & writing68
Originality20
Evidence & accuracy76
Hype vs delivers68
Age-fit68
👁 Human-eye gut-check64
Penny’s verdict60
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