Front Cover -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Using Self-Help Law Books -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Basic Rules You Should Know -- What a Will Is -- How a Will is Used -- Joint Tenancy -- Overruling Your Will -- Tenancy in Commong -- A Spouse Overruling a Will -- Avoiding a Spouse's Share -- I/T/ F Bank Accounts Versus Joint Ownership -- Securities Registered as I/T/ F -- Rules for Homesteads -- Property Exempt From Your Will -- Marriage and Changing Your Will -- Divorce and Your Will -- Children and Your Will -- Heirs or Parents Have a Forced Share in Puerto Rico -- Your Debts -- Estate and Inheritance Taxes -- Chapter 2: Needing a Will -- What a Will Can Do -- If You Have No Will -- Moving to Another State -- Who Makes a Will -- What a Will Cannot Do -- Who Can Use a Simple Will -- Who Should Not Use a Simple Will -- Chapter 3: Making a Simple Will -- Identifying Parties in Your Will -- Personal Property -- Specific Bequests -- Remainder Clause -- Alternate Beneficiaries -- Survivorship -- Guardians -- Children's Trust -- Executor or Personal Representative -- Witnesses -- Self-Proved Affidavit -- Disinheriting Someone -- Funeral Arrangements -- Handwritten Wills -- Louisiana -- Puerto Rico -- Cautions -- Chapter 4: Executing Your Will -- Procedure -- Self-Proved Affidavit -- Chapter 5: After Signing Your Will -- Storing Your Will -- Revoking Will -- Changing Your Will -- Chapter 6: Making Living Will -- Chapter 7: Making Anatomical Gifts -- Chapter 8: Making an Ethical Will -- Items Included -- Uses -- Format -- Glossary -- Appendix A: State Laws -- Spouse's Entitlement to Estate -- State Statutes Allowing Transfers at Death of Securities -- States in Which a Handwritten List of Personal Property May Be Used With a Will -- States in Which a Handwritten Will is Legal Without Witnesses -- Appendix B: Sample Filled-in Forms.

Appendix C: Forms -- Index -- Back Cover.