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Summary: hassle free will
Review: My wife and I did our wills. Nothing fancy, no complicated scenarios. For us it was a snap. Of course neither of us have died. Until then who knows. Worth it in order to avoid paying a lawyer a bundle. I can reccommend it for simple estates.
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Summary: hassle free will
Review: My wife and I did our wills. Nothing fancy, no complicated scenarios. For us it was a snap. Of course neither of us have died. Until then who knows. Worth it in order to avoid paying a lawyer a bundle. I can reccommend it for simple estates.
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Summary: needs direction on amending a living trust
Review: needs instructions on aending a living trust
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Summary: Quicken should've warned us !
Review: Sometime between the releases of Quicken Family Lawyer 2001 Deluxe and Quicken Lawyer 2002 Personal Deluxe, Quicken switched from software offered by Parsons to this new version offered by Nolo (I hear this is because Broderbund purchased Parsons).
Nothing personal against Nolo, but the new version has nowhere near the capabilities of the previous one. For one thing, the number of legal documents has dropped from well over 150 to 31. For those of you who are used to the old version and looking for an upgrade, do yourself a favor and go [the Broderbund website.]There you'll find the latest version of what used to be Quicken Family Lawyer. Buying the new Quicken Lawyer 2002 is nothing short of a DOWNGRADE.
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Summary: Get with the program or go away..
Review: This program and its manual has a fair amount of useful information. However, you are locked into a counterintuitive dialogue for entering your wishes, and prohibited from editing them in a manner that is consistent with windows. Nolo threw out the widows paradigm of dialogue boxes and created a new confusion breeding manner of data entry. The program grabs you and jerks you along where it wants you to go, not where you want to go. Program knows best seems to be the theory here.One can get used to all that with practice. However, suppose you have a question that is not answered by the manual nor the program but which should have been included in the manual or the program by any reasonable definition of what is basic to estate planning and wills? You contact tech support and if you are lucky enough to get past the people who do not understand the question and are passed along to the people who do, you just might find yourself blown off by a backroom legal writer with an attitude. When I asked some clear, elementary, and carefully worded questions, I was told to go get a lawyer. I have used Nolo legal self help products for many years, but this experience convinces me that they have lost their vision of what legal self help is about. If you study their recent software and books offered, you will conclude as I did that they are just cutting and pasting publications together from a data base that has not been kept up to date, and which does not cover all the relevant issues.
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Summary: Frustrating
Review: This software is extremely confining. It's difficult (impossible?) to delete documents you've created. It forces all-or-none documents. For example, if you want to indicate your preference for cremation, you MUST indicate where you want your ashes spread/kept. If you want to give someone power over your healthcare decisions, you MUST state specific decisions about life-support - There is no room for simply naming a healthcare proxy, which is a rather simple legal document.
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Summary: Great product!
Review: This software is worth its weight in gold. I'm amazed by the extensive legal help that accompanies every screen, and the fact that the forms are customized for your state. This is clearly well researched and written by attorneys who really care about providing high quality legal documents to consumers. I also found the program easy to use and very intuitive. Well worth the money!
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Summary: Save yourself the hassle and the $1500 dollars and buy this!
Review: When our insurance guy recommended an estate planner and told us he would give us a great deal and only charge $1500 for our living trust and wills, we immediately looked to Nolo. Six months ago, they hadn't partnered with Quicken to provide this product so we bought the Willmaker/Living Trust Bundle here on ... They ought to call it a bundle because of what it saved us. It was easy to use, easy to understand, and saved us a ton of money. I can only imagine that the partnership with Quicken has made it even better. I've used their products for years in my business, and I don't think there are any better. Get this and do yourself a favor.
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