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Examples & Explanations: Wills, Trusts, and Estates, 4th Ed. by Gerry W. Beyer

Examples & Explanations: Wills, Trusts, and Estates, 4th Ed.
by Gerry W. Beyer
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Imprint: Aspen Publishers
Published: 2/21/2007  Previous edition copyright dates
ISBN: 9780735562400
Paperback: 760 pages
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This popular study guide helps students master the complexities of wills, trusts, and estates through a combination of textual material and well-written, comprehensive examples, explanations, and questions. Examples & Explanations: Wills, Trusts, and Estates, Fourth Edition, provides students with the essential background and review materials they need to practice applying legal concepts to fact patterns.

Among the features that make this high-quality study guide popular with both students and instructors:

  • comprehensive coverage — the text covers intestacy, wills, and trusts, including nonprobate assets, estate administration, wealth transfer taxation (gift tax, estate tax, generation-skipping transfer tax), disability and death planning, and malpractice/professional responsibility
  • a conversational writing style that is clear, accessible, and holds students¿ interest
  • uses the Examples & Explanations format to help students learn in a step-by-step manner and also includes comprehensive questions, with a variety of issues in one fact situation, that are similar to those on law school and bar examinations
  • casebook correlation charts that make it easy to use the study guide with any of the seven most popular casebooks
  • a "learning by doing" approach that provides students with the opportunity to evaluate how well they can apply what they have just learned
  • practical suggestions throughout the text that enhance its pedagogical value and give students an appreciation of the how the concepts apply in the real world
  • samples of will and trust provisions and an extensively annotated model will
  • an overview of general nationwide rules
  • a comprehensive, student-friendly index that allows students to easily find the information they seek
  • tables for quick location of material relevant to the Uniform Probate Code, Uniform Trust Code, and Internal Revenue Code
  • updates available on author's website: www.ProfessorBeyer.com

Fine-tuned and updated, the Fourth Edition offers:

  • materials on recent developments, including: transfer of death deeds; self-settled spendthrift trusts; Rule Against Perpetuities reform; federal gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer tax; Uniform Trust Code; rights of same-sex partners; Medicaid planning; physician-assisted suicide
  • revised examples that reflect the updated content
  • updated casebook correlation tables reflecting new editions of the major casebooks


    Correlation Tables: Clark, Dobris, Dukeminier, O¿Brien, Scoles, Vollmar, and Waggoner

  1. Introduction and Overview

    Part One Intestate Succession

  2. Descent and Distribution
  3. Treatment of Certain Categories of Potential Heirs
  4. Other Intestate Succession Issues

    Part Two Wills

  5. Requirements for a Valid Will
  6. Changing Circumstances after Will Execution¿Property
  7. Changing Circumstances after Will Execution¿Persons
  8. Revocation of Wills
  9. Interpretation and Construction
  10. Will Contests
  11. Other Will Issues

    Part Three Estate Administration

  12. Estate Administration

    Part Four Nonprobate Transfers

  13. Reasons People Use Nonprobate Transfers
  14. Inter Vivos Transfers
  15. Co-Ownership of Property
  16. Multiple-Party Accounts
  17. Contracts

    Part Five Trusts

  18. Introduction to Trusts
  19. Trust Creation
  20. Trust Administration
  21. Trust Enforcement
  22. Resulting Trusts
  23. Constructive Trusts

    Part Six Other Estate Planning Concerns

  24. Wealth Transfer Taxation
  25. Disability and Death Planning
  26. Malpractice and Professional Responsibility

Comprehensive Examples and Explanations

Sample Will with Testamentary Trust Form

Bibliography

Tables: Uniform Probate Code Provisions; Uniform Trust Code Provisions; Internal Revenue Code Provisions

Index

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