附註:Overview -- If you're asked to be an executor or trustee -- The first week -- The first month -- Claiming life insurance, Social Security, and other benefits -- Making sense of the will -- If there's no will -- Taking inventory -- Managing assets and paying bills -- Caring for children and their property -- Taxes -- Property that doesn't go through probate -- Transferring joint tenancy and other survivorship property -- Transferring community property -- Claiming money in retirement plans -- Claiming payable-on-death assets -- Special procedures for small estates -- The regular probate process -- Wrapping up a simple living trust -- Managing a child's trust -- Handling a bypass (AB) trust -- Researching the law yourself -- Lawyers and other experts.