The Canadian Guide to Will and Estate Planning

By:   Douglas Gray, John Budd
Imprint:   McGraw Hill Higher Education
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   4th Revised edition
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 191mm,  Spine: 28mm
Weight:   766g
ISBN:   9781259863417
ISBN 10:   1259863417
Pages:   456
Publication Date:   28 April 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

DOUGLAS GRAY, LL.B., is a Vancouver-based expert on estate and retirement planning. Formerly a practicing business and real estate lawyer, he is now a consultant, speaker, columnist and author of 25 bestselling business and personal finance books (published primarily by McGraw-Hill and John Wiley & Sons), including the Top 10 National Best-seller, The Canadian Snowbird Guide. Many of these books have been published in other languages and adapted for foreign jurisdictions. Douglas has also designed a real estate investment software program for McGraw-Hill Ryerson and has been a regular expert contributor on personal finances issues for various internet sites and CD-ROM products, including Microsoft Money and QuickTaxHome and Business. He has also been a regular contributor to the Microsoft Canada Small Business web site and the Microsoft Network Canadian Money Central web site. Douglas has given seminars and presentations to over 250,000 people nationally and internationally in his various areas of expertise. Frequently interviewed by the media as an authority on personal finance and retirement matters, Douglas has appeared many times on various CBC, CTV and Global TV programs. He has given over 1,500 media interviews. He has been a regular columnist for Profit, Computer Paper, Canadian Computer Wholesaler, Canada News and Forever Young and a nationally syndicated columnist for Southam Press. He has also been a periodic contributor to the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, House and Home, Macleans, Good Times, Canadian Moneysaver, Advisers Edge, The Successful Investor and many other publications.His family of web sites includes estateplanning.ca, retirementplanning.ca, snowbird.ca, homebuyer.ca and smallbiz.ca. DIANA GRAY is an experienced business owner and consultant. Her company provides centralized business services to small and medium-sized companies as well as home-based businesses. Diana lives in Vancouver, BC. John W. Budd is a professor in the Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies at the University of Minnesotas Carlson School of Management, where he holds the Industrial Relations Land Grant Chair. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Colgate University and received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University. Professor Budd has taught labor relations to undergraduates, professional masters students, and Ph.D. candidates and has received multiple departmental teaching awards as well as an excellence in education award from the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA). He has served on LERAs education committee and executive board and has published journal articles about teaching labor relations. Professor Budds main research interests are in industrial relations, especially labor relations. He is the author of The Thought of Work (Cornell University Press) Employment with a Human Face: Balancing Efficiency, Equity, and Voice (Cornell University Press), and Invisible Hands, Invisible Objectives: Bringing Workplace Law and Public Policy into Focus (with Stephen Befort, Stanford University Press) and the coeditor of The Ethics of Human Resources and Industrial Relations (with James Scoville, Labor and Employment Relations Association). He has also published numerous articles in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Industrial Relations, the Journal of Labor Economics, the British Journal of Industrial Relations, the Journal of Industrial Relations, Labor Studies Journal, and other journals and edited volumes. He is a LERA Fellow and serves on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Industrial Relations, ILR Review, Human Resource Management Journal, and Labour and Industry. Professor Budd has been the director of the University of Minnesotas Center for Human Resources and Labor Studies and has also served as director of graduate studies for Minnesotas graduate program in human resources and industrial relations, one of the oldest and largest such graduate programs in the United States. He also has a monthly blog called Whither Work?