Estate Planning Made Not Too Scary

SmartMoney's estate planning coverage includes a federal estate tax calculator and tax tips for singles and marrieds. (Whether viewable by nonsubscribers to the WSJ I'm not sure.) When thoughtfully arranged, as in this case, a good bit of info can be presented without intimidating the viewer.

But taxes aren't the hard part of estate planning. For instance, as noted elsewhere on SmartMoney, "while the overall divorce rate has decreased slightly over the past two decades, for those over 50 it has doubled …."