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Once the exclusive domain of specialist attorneys, estate planning is now a highly lucrative part of many accountants' and tax professionals' practices nationwide. If you are an accountant who would like to take advantage of this national trend as a way to diversify your services and significantly increase your profit base, this book is for you. Based on author Doug H. Moy's more than twenty-five years as a successful estate planning professional, it tells you everything you need to know about planning, building, managing, and marketing a thriving estate planning practice. Writing in a straightforward, jargon-free style, Moy deftly guides you step-by-step through the entire estate planning process. He shows you how to work with attorneys and clients to develop a solid, legally structured estate plan for maximum asset protection, estate preservation, and privacy. What's more, he shares the original wealth preservation and transfer strategies that helped make him one of today's most respected estate planning specialists. But that's not all. The fruit of Moy's two and a half decades as head of a national estate planning business, Wealth Preservation also provides you with a complete blueprint for starting and running your own successful estate planning practice, from fee-setting and billing to drawing up a consulting agreement and staying on top of the latest changes in the tax laws. An indispensable resource for PAs, EAs, CPAs, CFPs, insurance professionals, and banking service providers, Wealth Preservation contains a gold mine of proven business tools and techniques, including: * Methods for developing estate planning business among established clients * Prospecting how-to's for finding and qualifying new clients * All of the documentation you'll need in ready-to-use format * n original client financial information checklist that helps you get all of the crucial facts necessary to develop and prepare written plans and avoid malp