The Living Trust Advisor

Acknowledgments

Writing can be a very rewarding experience. But, when the writing involves trying to turn a subject as complex and tedious as the Living Trust into (one hopes) a lighthearted and entertaining romp, it can also be exasperating. No one thinks of the estate planning attorney as a tortured artist; but, after multiple occasions of spending hours on a single paragraph attempting to be informative and witty, I felt I was Van Gogh.

With the three editions of my other book and this second edition of the Living Trust Advisor, this is the fifth opportunity I’ve had to publicly acknowledge in a real book the important persons in my life and the ones who were integral in producing this book. Such mentions just don’t seem as special and permanent in social media, do they? On the Internet, anyone can acknowledge anyone for anything. Just the other day on Facebook I posted my congratulations to my mother’s dog, Molly, for successfully jumping off the couch. Just too easy (both the posting and the couch-jumping)! But when folks see their name in print in a real, old-fashioned book that they can see and feel, that must be a thrill for them, yes? Well, at least it’s still a thrill for me to have this platform.

In keeping with my lawyer-like penchant to compartmentalize, I shall break my acknowledgments into three separate and distinct categories.

For Those without Whom This Revised Edition Wouldn’t Exist

Stacey Rivera and Tula Batanchiev. Stacey is my manuscript editor at Wiley, ...