Wills, Trusts, and Estates (Eleventh Edition) (Aspen Casebook Series)

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Synopsis
Widely hailed as one of the best casebooks in legal education, this comprehensive text combines interesting cases, thoughtful analysis, notes, images, and a clear organization for an excellent teaching tool. Cartoons, illustrations, case documents, and photographs provide engaging visual commentary. Sidebars on relevant persons, places, and things provide interesting and sometimes humorous context. A comprehensive Teacher's Manual provides a complete teaching summary of all materials in the book, and comprehensive PowerPoint slides provide helpful structure for classroom organization.

New to the Eleventh Edition:

• New section on will execution during the COVID-19 pandemic, with attention to reconciling "presence" with social distancing

• Updated and completely revised section on electronic or digital wills, with attention to the latest cases and statutes

• Updated to account for the 2021 and 2019 revisions to the Uniform Probate Code that, among other things, eliminated gender-based distinctions and expanded recognition of non-biological parent-child relationships

• Updated coverage of wealth and income inequality and new material on recent proposals for a wealth tax

• Updated and completely revised section on trust decanting, with attention to the latest statutory and case law developments

• Updated and completely revised section on asset protection trusts, with attention to key choice-of-law and fraudulent transfer principles

Professors and students will benefit from:

• Unique blend of wit, erudition, insight, and playfulness retained from the late Jesse Dukeminier

• Organization that covers all the key topics in a logical and clear format Interesting cases that are not only fun to read, but fun to teach

• Cases enhanced and connected to broader legal principles by well-written connective text, notes, questions, problems, and sidebars

• Arresting two-color design

• Cartoons, illustrations, wills and other case documents, and photographs that provide visual commentary and teaching aids

Copyright:
2022

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
1,090 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781543824469
Publisher:
Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Robert H. Silkoff
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Textbooks, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics
Submitted By:
Daproim Africa
Proofread By:
Daproim Africa
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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