Write your will and avoid probate with America's No. 1 estate planning software!

Write your will, create a power of attorney for finances, and protect your family with Quicken WillMaker Plus 2010. This easy-to-use software provides the forms you need to create an effective estate plan that's legally valid in your state*. It's so comprehensive, the software assembles your forms from among 40,000 document possibilities -- but so simple to fill out, you'll have them finished in minutes.

For each section of your comprehensive estate plan, Quicken WillMaker Plus takes you through a step-by-step interview. If you have any questions about your document, simply check out the comprehensive onscreen legal manual. Expert tech support is also available.

Simply launch Quicken WillMaker Plus and create the following documents:

• Will
• Financial Powers of Attorney
• Health Care Directive, including Living Will & Health Care Power of Attorney
• Final Arrangements Document
• Important Documents for Executors

The software also provides forms you can use every day, such as authorizations and agreements, promissory notes, and child and elder care forms. Help protect your family and your assets, and save on legal fees!

PLUS! When you register your software, you'll receive a coupon to create a living trust using Nolo's Online Living Trust for only $1. And as a special bonus, download a free copy of our bestseller, Estate Planning Basics.

Need to know more? Here are in-depth details about what you can do with Quicken WillMaker Plus:

Your Will
Provide for family, friends and charities. Name a personal guardian to care for young children. Specify the executor (or "personal representative") of your estate. Select a trusted person to manage property left to young people. Revise and update your will whenever you like.

Your Health Care Directive lets people who care for you make important decisions about your life and health when you can't. Create a:

• Health Care Power of Attorney
  Permit a loved one to make important medical decisions for you if you are unable to do so yourself.
• Living Will
  Specify whether you want your life prolonged through artificial means. Appoint someone to make sure your wishes are carried out.

Your Financial Power of Attorney
Name someone to make your financial decisions, in case you are medically incapacitated. Don't worry, you can grant as much authority as you wish.

Your Final Arrangements
Plan a funeral or other ceremony. Clarify whether you want a cremation or burial. Select someone to oversee your final arrangements -- and more!

Documents for Your Executor
Make sure your executor (or "personal representative" in some states) has all the forms and instructions he or she needs to do the job: Checklists, letters, notices, claim forms -- and more.

Personal Finance Documents
Over a dozen forms that let you handle financial situations you might face on any given day, such as lending or borrowing money between friends or family, creating bills of sale, ending a credit card account -- and more!

Home & Family Documents
Whether you need to authorize someone to travel with your child to another country, want to lend your car to a friend, or create an agreement with a trusted person to take care of your elderly parent, Quicken WillMaker Plus can handle all these family situations -- and many more!

Please note that Quicken WillMaker Plus 2010 is only compatible with the Windows operating system. If you use a Mac, we recommend you use Nolo's Online Will to create your custom estate plan.

*Estate planning documents not valid in Louisiana. If you live in Louisiana and would like to write your will, use one of the following eForms:

• Basic Louisiana Will for Adult With Children
• Basic Louisiana Will for Adult Without Children
  

All forms are completed through a step-by-step interview, which customizes a document based on your answers. Completed documents can be printed directly, or exported to an RTF document, which can be opened in any word processor.

Wills

• Will
• Self-Proving Affidavit (for Will)
• Letter to Executor

Leaving Others in Charge

• Health Care Directive (Living Will & Power of Attorney)
• Durable Power of Attorney for Finances
• Special (Limited) Power of Attorney for Finances
• Information for the Attorney-in-Fact
• Delegation Form for Attorney-in-Fact
• Resignation Form for Attorney-in-Fact
• Revocation Form for Recorded Durable Power of Attorney for Finances
• Revocation Form for Unrecorded Durable Power of Attorney for Finances
• Revocation of Health Care Directive
• Revocation of Power of Attorney
• Final Arrangements Letter

Documents for Your Executor

• Affidavit of Domicile
• Employee Death Benefits Letter
• Executor's Checklist
• Executor's Letter to Financial Institution
• General Notice of Death
• Notice to Creditor of Death
• Notice to Homeowners Insurance Company of Death
• Notice to Vehicle Insurance Company of Death
• Request for Life Insurance Claim Form
• Request for Life Insurance Proceeds

Personal Finance Documents

• General Bill of Sale
• Promissory Note (Amortized Monthly Payments)
• Promissory Note (Balloon Payment)
• Promissory Note (Payments of Interest Only)
• Promissory Note (One Lump Sum Payment)
• Security Agreement for Borrowing Money
• Notice to Terminate Joint Credit Card Account
• Notice to Put Name on Do Not Call List
• Cancel Membership or Subscription

Documents for Home and Family

• Child Care Agreement
• Child Care Instructions
• Authorization for Minor's Medical Treatment
• Authorization for Foreign Travel With Minor
• Temporary Guardianship Authorization for Care of Minor
• Elder Care Agreement
• Pet Care Agreement
• Housekeeping Services Agreement
• Housesitting Instructions
• Authorization to Drive a Motor Vehicle
• Property Inventory Worksheet

Here are summaries of important legal or procedural changes that affect the latest edition of this product.

CD-ROM enclosed
Computer: Pentium 400 MHz
Operating System: Windows XP/Vista
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 22 MB (24 MB to install)
Monitor: 1024 x 768 with 16-bit color
CD-ROM Drive: 2x speed
Internet Connection: 56 Kbps modem required to access online features
Printer: Any printer supported by Windows XP/Vista
Software: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher; Adobe Reader (optional); spreadsheet program (optional).