Wear Clean Underwear!: A Fast, Fun, Friendly and Essential Guide to Legal Planning for Busy Parents | 
 enlarge | Author: Alexis Martin Neely
Publisher: Morgan James Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 18323
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
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Pages: 176
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6
ISBN: 1600374417
Dewey Decimal Number: 346.052
EAN: 9781600374418
ASIN: 1600374417
Publication Date: May 1, 2008
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Product Description
Now that you are a parent, wearing clean underwear when you leave home simply isn't enough. You've planned birthday parties, playdates and education, but have you adequately planned for what would happen if you were in an accident? What would happen in the first 24 hours while the officials locate your family members and arrange for your children's care? Are your plans sufficient to keep your children in the care of people you know and trust during these critical hours? And what about your money and home? Will your legal documents keep your family together or tear them apart? In an easy-to-read story format, Wear Clean Underwear takes you on a journey to discover in fast, simple-to-understand terms exactly what will happen based on your current plan, and what happens if you don't have a plan. Showing you how to avoid unnecessary taxes and a broken-down court system, the book guides you to transfer your values, love, and support to your children and loved ones with ease.
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 Simple stories, big legal lessons July 17, 2008
Through story-telling style, Neely shows how making simple, doable changes in a will or child care guardianship can empower your family, and carry out your wishes after your gone. We have power, even in death, to guard protect those we love. She asks good questions, opens your mind to the possibilities, and consequences of good and not so good choices typical parents make in wills. Like a checker game, She shows you what a 'move' or two down the legal road looks like in reality. It's simply written, interesting material, easy to understand and take with you wisdom you can use. There are nuggets of wisdom that apply to all ages.
Thought Provoking and Helpful May 31, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great book. Estate planning is something we never seem to make time for, and when we do, oftentimes we just do it without real thought. This book really does and should make you think - it covers various scenarios of things that could happen and the dreadful repercussions that do happen if you have not planned properly. Maybe all the information can be found elsewhere - but it is fantastic to have it all in one place. The book is not overwhelming - it is just right for people who are wanting to do the right things to safeguard their families and estates, but are not sure what all the steps should be. I have a will and I thought I had covered all our bases along with my husband, but boy was I ever wrong. I have quite a few things to do to really safeguard our children, and one of those things we accomplished today - thanks to this book. Life is busy, life is complicated; we put off things we really should do, we also think we know all that needs to be done - but this book shows how wrong we are. The personal things that this book suggests to help your children should you no longer be here, is worth the purchase price alone. Do yourself and your children a favor, buy the book and put the things in place that will help you sleep better at night, knowing your children are safeguarded and that you have done all you could possibly do.
 No Substance May 17, 2008
6 out of 15 found this review helpful
I didn't find this book helpful at all. This book touchs upon a very few issues of estate planning for kids, and not quite comprehensive. It just barely skims the surface, and usually concluding with nuiances that make sure you talk to your attorney. If I intended to talk to all those folks, I wouldn't waste my time reading this book in the first place. Most of what this book covers could be learned by snooping around the web - and in many cases you can learn more that way.
Makes the planning for the unthinkable totally "do"able May 7, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Alexis Martin Neely gives million dollar advice for the price of a paperback! Finally a guide for parents that don't want to spend a year dwelling on what "might" happen! In 10 minutes I had my guardianship papers DONE! This book saved me a ton of headaches and got me on the right track in a fun and non depressing way.
Alexis has a great, easy to read writing style that transforms complex subjects into everyday language. And her expertise shines throughout. I highly recommend this book to everyone who has kids and wants to make sure that they and you are protected.
A must for parents May 7, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Now, I'm not a lawyer. Nor do I play one on TV.
I am, however, a parent who has two daughters she loves more than life itself.
You know what? Sometimes love is not enough. We can't just hug our kids and play with them and go to the beach and read books and do all that fun stuff we love to do.
We have to work to provide. We have to house, clothe, feed, and protect our children. One sphere where we've got to do this -- and one, quite frankly, that I suck at -- is in the legal arena.
That's why when the opportunity to read a review copy of Wear Clean Underwear: A Fast, Fun, Friendly and Essential Guide to Legal Planning For Busy Parents came up, I jumped at it. This is an area I don't know much about, and I wanted to fill the gaps in my knowledge.
Author Alexis Martin Neely delivered -- and then some. She brought up questions I'd never even thought about: what happens if the people you appoint as your kids guardians die? what happens if the guardian you appoint really doesn't want to be the guardian after all? what happens if you have people fighting over your kids? what happens if your kids are left without much in the way of financial resources when you step off this mortal coil?
Neely gets you thinking, first and foremost, and that's critical. Much of what you will read here is the same advice you'll find in estate planning guides -- but rendered comprehensible, in easy to read language. I understood this book -- I didn't feel stupid or poorly educated, trying to figure out what legal terms meant. Neely asks the questions we're all terrified to ask.
There's a choose your own adventure feel to the book: If you decide to do X, go to page 55 and see what happens. I liked this. The choices presented were straightforward: you're going to do X or Y, here's the consequences of both. Are the choices exhaustive? No, but she hit the most common ones, and I'd bet they'd answer 95% of most readers questions.
Neely also wins big bonus points for being cultural aware. Frankly, a lot of guides like this (and I've read a ton of the financial ones and I ghostwrite for Long Term Care insurance professionals) ignore the fact that we don't all live in heteronormative families. We're not all Mommy, Daddy, and 2.2 kids. Sometimes there's Mommy and Mommy. Sometimes there's just Dad. Sometimes there's Mom and Dad and Stepmom and Stepdad and the girlfriend no one talks about. Neely acknowledges this, respects this, and provides at least a starting point for those of us with non-traditional families -- and the assurance that the legal system can work for us too, if we're smart and proactive about it.
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