Viatical & Life Settlements
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"It may be a little-known fact, but the terminally ill can access their life insurance benefits before their death by means of a viatical settlement. Financial planner and social worker Wolk, in a question-and-answer format, details the workings of this new industry, which started only in 1988, mainly because of the spread of AIDS.

"This is the first book on the topic ("viatical" keyword search turns up nothing on LC's database), but Wolk includes many references to the periodical literature. She covers the tax consequences of these payouts and touches on estate-planning law. In the useful appendix, she examines and compares the viatical providers licensed to do business in California (which, along with New York, is in the forefront in regulating these companies). An invaluable resource."

 

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© 1998 - 2008 Bialkin Books, publisher of viatical books banned in Texas and Florida
(at the behest of companies that consider informed consumers dangerous to their bottom line):
Viatical Litigation: Principles & Practice - the first legal text on the industry
Viatical & Life Settlements: An Investor's Guide
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