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Examples and Explanations for Wills, Trusts, and Estates by
A favorite classroom prep tool of successful students that is often recommended by professors, the Examples & Explanations (E&E) series provides an alternative perspective to help you understand your casebook and in-class lectures. Each E&E offers hypothetical questions complemented by detailed explanations that allow you to test your knowledge of the topics in your courses and compare your own analysis. Here's why you need an E&E to help you study throughout the semester: Clear explanations of each class topic, in a conversational, funny style. Features hypotheticals similar to those presented in class, with corresponding analysis so you can use them during the semester to test your understanding, and again at exam time to help you review. It offers coverage that works with ALL the major casebooks, and suits any class on a given topic. The Examples & Explanations series has been ranked the most popular study aid among law students because it is equally as helpful from the first day of class through the final exam.
Principles of Wills, Trusts and Estates by
This book introduces students to the federal gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer tax laws; grantor trust rules affecting the wealth disposition process; and the income tax rules applicable to estates and trusts. It covers recent cases and secondary literature and, reflecting the current trend toward globalization, it also includes a discussion of comparative law. It emphasizes the lawyer's role as drafter or estate planner and suggests ways to avoid problems that otherwise lead to litigation. It closely tracks the authors' more detailed hornbook, using the same section numbers for easy retrieval of information in the longer version.
Questions and Answers: Wills, Trusts, and Estates by
Questions & Answers: Wills, Trusts, and Estates is a study guide designed to provide students with a fuller understanding of this nuanced and complex area of the law. Passively engaging with rules does not advance the forward edge of a student's comprehension, but reviewing practice questions is a proven way to improve performance on exams. This study guide includes multiple-choice and short-answer questions arranged topically for ease of use during the semester, plus an additional set of questions comprising a comprehensive "practice exam." For each multiple-choice question, the authors provide a detailed answer that indicates which of four options is the best answer and explains thoroughly why that option is better than the other three options. Each short-answer question is designed to be answered in fifteen minutes or less. A thoughtful and comprehensive model answer is provided. This edition of the book builds on the foundation established in the first three editions by revising and updating the topics covered to include new developments in law. Questions have been updated to use more inclusive language.
Skills and Values---Trusts and Estates by
The authors have revised Chapter 16 for Skills & Values: Trusts & Estates in 2014. This chapter is available for free here. Skills & Values: Trusts and Estates is one of the first titles in the new Skills & Values Series. The books in this new series are designed to enable professors to assign supplementary practice-oriented material to enrich their students' traditional study. Skills & Values: Trusts and Estates challenges students to apply the substantive content from their Trusts and Estates course in a way that helps them see what the doctrinal law looks like when it "crosses a lawyer's desk". Each chapter offers fact pattern based on a topic covered in a typical course. Most of the chapters offer different levels of tasks. The exercises require students to use the wide range of skills needed in an Estate Planning and Probate Practice course, such as drafting, negotiating, statutory interpretation, litigation strategizing, and ethics problem solving. The materials are designed to allow students to self-assess, thus enhancing the learning experience while allowing professors maximum flexibility to choose the level of their own engagement.
Understanding Trusts and Estates by
This new edition of Understanding Trusts and Estates retains the style and clear language that have kept generations of students engaged as they explore this intriguing field. Updates include coverage of electronic wills, new uniform act treatment of the parent-child relationship and unmarried cohabitants, directed trusts and trust protectors, and the uniform power of appointment act. Examples, charts, cross-references among similar concepts, and frameworks for analyzing problem areas all combine to give students the tools to deepen their understanding. Examples throughout the book demonstrate how trusts and estates doctrines affect real people. Although the book is designed primarily as a student supplement, some teachers have used it successfully as the primary text, supplemented by statutory materials, for both the basic course and for more specialized courses. Practicing attorneys may also find it useful if they are new to the subject or have been away from it for some time.
Uniform Probate Code and Uniform Trust Code in a Nutshell by
Authoritative coverage provides detailed explanation of the provisions, definitions, and concepts of the UPC and the UTC. UPC topics covered include, e.g., probate jurisdiction of the courts; intestate succession; wills and donative transfers; probate of wills; and administration of estates. UTC topics include, e.g., creation, validity, modification, and termination of trusts; discretionary and revocable trusts; creditor's claims and spendthrift trusts; duties, powers and liability of trustees; and rights of persons dealing with trustees.
Wills, Trusts and Estates Including Taxation and Future Interests by
A comprehensive one-volume treatise on the law of trusts and estates written by leading experts. Among the topics covered are intestate succession, wills, nonprobate mechanisms, trusts, fiduciary administration, and choice of law. The book includes the very latest hot topics including electronic wills, trust decanting, directed trusts, asset protection trusts, and planning for modern families. The book incorporates the most recent provisions of the Uniform Probate Code, the Uniform Trust Code, and the many other uniform laws relating to the donative transfer of wealth. The book also includes an overview of the federal transfer tax laws. An essential guide for students and practitioners.
Wills and Trusts in a Nutshell by
The fifth edition of this book updates laws affecting intestate succession, wills, guardianships and trusts. It introduces wills terminology to the lay audience and summarizes the law of trusts with references to the Uniform Trust Code and the Restatement of Trusts. It uses problems arising from celebrity peccadilloes and deaths, such as those of Prince, and the mother/daughter team of Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher to illustrate legal issues. The book can be adopted to supplement a traditional wills and trusts class or as the sole text for a seminar.
Gilbert Law Summaries on Trusts by
This outline covers the trust law you will encounter in your Wills, Trusts and Estates class. Topics include the following: elements of a trust, trust creation, transfer of beneficiary's interest (including spendthrift trusts), charitable trusts (including the Cy Pres Doctrine), and a trustee's responsibilities, power, duties, and liabilities. Other topics include duties and liabilities of beneficiaries, powers to modify or revoke, termination of trusts by operation of law, resulting trusts, and constructive trusts.
Gilbert Law Summary on Estate and Gift Taxation by
This Gilbert Summary on Estate and Gift Taxation includes a detailed substantive discussion of estate and gift taxation, including the generation-skipping transfer tax, marital deduction, powers of appointment, portability of the deceased spousal exclusion amount, valuation, disclaimers, and computation and payment of the taxes. It includes 100 multiple choice review questions and answers and numerous practice exam essay questions and answers.
Gilbert Law Summaries on Antitrust by
The topics included are common law restraints of trade, federal antitrust laws (including Sherman Act, Clayton Act, Federal Trade Commission Act, interstate commerce requirement, and antitrust remedies), and monopolization (including market definition, monopoly power, monopoly conduct, attempted monopolization, and conspiracy to monopolize). Also included are collusion among competitors (including horizontal price fixing, market division, and group boycotts), vertical restraints (including resale price maintenance, territorial restrictions, tying arrangements, and exclusive dealing arrangements), and mergers and acquisitions (including horizontal mergers, Brown Shoe analysis, vertical mergers, and conglomerate mergers). Further topics addressed are price discrimination--Robinson-Patman Act, unfair methods of competition, patent laws and their antitrust implications, and exemptions from antitrust laws.
Gilbert Law Summaries on Wills by
This updated outline focuses on topics most commonly covered on Wills, Trusts, and Estates exams. These include intestate succession, wills formalities and interpretation, will revocation and revival, will challenges, family protections, and simultaneous death. Also succinctly explained are the subsidiary doctrines of incorporation by reference, pour-over wills, joint wills, contracts relating to wills, lapsed gifts, ademption, and exoneration of liens. Throughout, pointers are provided about fact patterns that students are likely to see on exams and how to address them, as well as things to watch out for.
The Law of Antitrust, an Integrated Handbook by
This updated edition of a venerable antitrust law treatise will meet the needs of lawyers, judges, scholars, and students. As in prior editions, it provides a clear statement of the law, visits unresolved issues and areas of controversy, and provides a candid assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the various positions. The new edition also contains a more user-friendly index.
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