Wills, Trusts, and EstatesIn this timely new edition, distinguished authors Dukeminier and Johanson build on the success of their phenomenally popular casebook Wills, Trusts, and Estates with new coverage of non-traditional family arrangements, living wills, and much more. the authors blend cases selected for human interest as well as teaching value with provocative hypotheticals, cartoons, photographs, and other illustrations to comprehensively cover this area in a very lively, readable manner. Organized logically, The book begins with estate planning and its limitations, moves to wills and will substitutes, progresses to trusts, and concludes with a chapter on taxation. New topic coverage includes: babies inadvertently swapped in hospitals, surrogate mothers, lesbian adoption, and artificial insemination (including children conceived after sperm donor's death) living wills and powers of attorney for health care, including the Cruzan case And The Uniform Health Care Decisions Act a new chapter combining mental capacity and undue influence, which features the Seward Johnson will contest and related preventive lawyering issues shortened, more teachable chapters on future interests and perpetuities latest changes To The Uniform Probate Code a completely revised and reorganized trustee administration chapter Like its predecessors, this book is a lively, flexible, and understandable teaching tool that is accompanied by a detailed and witty Teacher's Manual, which is regarded as the best in the field. |
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Page 200
... executors to decide how to divvy it up , and perhaps leaving little for the executors after the lawyers got paid . Nina's superiors told her she should suggest to Seward that the compensation formula be changed , so that each executor ...
... executors to decide how to divvy it up , and perhaps leaving little for the executors after the lawyers got paid . Nina's superiors told her she should suggest to Seward that the compensation formula be changed , so that each executor ...
Page 721
... executor argues that Lester possesses no current property interest and therefore has nothing to renounce . The executor main- tains that Lester's renunciation is premature and may be made only if , and at such time as , the trustees ...
... executor argues that Lester possesses no current property interest and therefore has nothing to renounce . The executor main- tains that Lester's renunciation is premature and may be made only if , and at such time as , the trustees ...
Page 1049
... executor to elect to qualify a terminable interest trust for the marital deduction . Or the testator may direct his executor not to so elect . Or the testator may leave the election to the executor's discretion . If the testator leaves ...
... executor to elect to qualify a terminable interest trust for the marital deduction . Or the testator may direct his executor not to so elect . Or the testator may leave the election to the executor's discretion . If the testator leaves ...
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