Wills, Trusts, and Estates

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

Teaching materials include:

• Teacher’s Manual that provides a complete teaching summary of all materials in the book
• PowerPoint slides that provide explanatory diagrams and structure for classroom discussion
• Transition Guide
• Sample Exams
• Sample Estate Planning Documents

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