Creating the Good Will

Leave your family peace of mind with this new approach to wills and estates

Whenever Elizabeth Arnold tells people her specialty, they usually share their own family dilemmas. Maybe Dad left behind a misguided or inadequate will. Maybe Aunt Sue nabbed the vase that wasn’t in Grandma’s will and Aunt Pat hasn’t spoken a kind word to her since. Maybe Sis can’t decide who should get the kids in case of a tragedy, so she doesn’t have any will at all. Such tales of woe have nothing to do with legal or tax problems. The real issues behind wills gone wrong—or wills that never get off the ground—are the human ones.

Creating the Good Will tackles the important human dimensions that most books about wills fail to address. Arnold teaches her readers that wills are not just legal documents but also heartfelt emotional tools.

If you are estate planning for your family’s well-being, this is the most holistic and human approach I have ever seen. With this practical book you’ll leave much more value and legacy behind than just a checkbook! (Stephen Pollan, author of Die Broke)

Easy to understand and more importantly, easy to use, this book is a must for all of us who think about the future of our loved ones and the variety of things .we wish to leave behind.(Kathy Wiseman, Georgetown Family Center)

Elizabeth Arnold is a trustworthy guide for showing us how to solve all the human and financial choices that must be made. (Grace Gabe, M.D., author of Making Adult Stepfamilies Work)Elizabeth Joy Arnold was raised in New York, and has degrees from Vassar College and Princeton University. She is the author of several novels, including The Book of Secrets and When We Were Friends. She lives with her husband in Hopewell, New Jersey, where she is at work on her next novel.