Estate Planning Smarts: A Practical, User-Friendly, Action-Oriented Guide, 2nd Edition

A newer edition of this best-selling book for baby boomers and their parents is now available on a different page of Amazon.com.

The expanded 3rd edition, published Oct. 31, 2013, replaces the 2nd edition, published in 2011. It covers the important 2012 federal tax changes that affect everyone, and the growing important of state estate tax and inheritance tax.

Other changes since the 2nd edition: the book discusses the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage and the Internal Revenue Service ruling implementing it. Plus there are new celebrity case studies that illustrate estate planning strategies and mistakes by James Gandolfini, Adam Yauch and Mark Zuckerberg, among others.