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 421
... Extrinsic evidence always may be introduced initially in order to show that under the circumstances of a particular case the seemingly clear language of a will describing either the subject of or the object of the ... Extrinsic Evidence 421.
... Extrinsic evidence always may be introduced initially in order to show that under the circumstances of a particular case the seemingly clear language of a will describing either the subject of or the object of the ... Extrinsic Evidence 421.
Page 433
... extrinsic evi- dence of a scrivener's error to be introduced in litigation concerned with the admissi- bility of a disputed will to pro- bate . " Id . , 22. The dissent gave three principal reasons for its ... Extrinsic Evidence 433.
... extrinsic evi- dence of a scrivener's error to be introduced in litigation concerned with the admissi- bility of a disputed will to pro- bate . " Id . , 22. The dissent gave three principal reasons for its ... Extrinsic Evidence 433.
Page 434
... extrinsic evidence would unquestionably have been admitted . " Id . , 25. The dissent contended that “ innocent ... extrinsic evidence should be admissible to establish the decedent's true intent . Third , the dissent examined and ...
... extrinsic evidence would unquestionably have been admitted . " Id . , 25. The dissent contended that “ innocent ... extrinsic evidence should be admissible to establish the decedent's true intent . Third , the dissent examined and ...
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