Examples & Explanations: Wills, Trusts, and Estates, 8th Edition

• ISBN: 9781543846829

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  Wills, Trusts, and Estates: Examples and Explanations covers intestate succession, wills, trusts, estate administration, nonprobate assets, wealth transfer taxation, disability and death planning (including elder law concerns), and malpractice and professional responsibility. This book is designed to augment Wills, Trusts, and Estates and related courses that expose students to estate planning, decedents’ estates, and trusts. This book also provides essential background and review material for students taking advanced courses in estate planning, elder law, and wealth transfer taxation. The discussion, along with the examples and explanations, covers both the theoretical and practical applications of the legal concepts. 

   

  New to the 8th Edition:  

  • The development of electronic wills, electronic signatures and notarization, and other components of estate planning in light of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic 
  • Updated percentages and exemption amounts for gift, estate, and generation-skipping tax
  • Revision of content and standards from the Uniform Probate Code, Uniform Trust Code, and other uniform laws to reflect recent changes and amendments 
  • Developments in physician-assisted suicide 
  • Updated casebook correlation tables reflect new editions of the major casebooks 
  • Text and examples updated and “fine-tuned” to enhance readability and pedagogical value 

   

  Professors and students will benefit from: 

  • Comprehensive coverage—Covers intestacy, wills, and trusts, including non-probate assets, estate administration, wealth transfer taxation (gift tax, estate tax, generation-skipping transfer tax), disability/death planning, and malpractice/professional responsibility 
  • Unique E&E pedagogy—Combines textual material with well-written and comprehensive examples, explanations, and questions to test student comprehension of the materials and provide them with practice in applying information to fact patterns. In addition to examples designed to assist the student learn in a step-by-step manner, the book also includes comprehensive questions (in which there are a variety of issues in one fact situation) which are similar to those on a law school or bar examination
  • Clear, accessible writing—Conversational style is designed to hold students’ interest
  • Casebook correlation chart—Enables the book to be used with most popular casebooks in the subject
  • “Learning by doing” approach—Encourages students to master the law; provides students with the opportunity, in a non-threatening environment, to evaluate how well they can apply what they have just learned
  • Practical—Practical suggestions interspersed throughout the text enhance its pedagogical value and give students an appreciation of the real-world application of their course 
  • Drafting assistance—Sample will and trust provisions and an extensively annotated model will (including a testamentary trust) heighten student interest 
  • Flexibility—Designed for students taking Wills, Trusts, Wills & Estates, Estates & Trusts, Gratuitous Transfers, and similarly titled courses that provide students with their first comprehensive introduction to property transmission upon death. Although the book is not designed for advanced courses in estate planning or wealth transfer taxation, it is nonetheless useful because it provides background and review material
  • Spotlights general nationwide rules without being sidetracked by too many individual cases
  • Comprehensive, student-friendly index allows students to easily pinpoint the exact location of the sought-after material
  • 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