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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... trust A is given a stream of income that A cannot alienate and her creditors cannot reach . The two decisions largely responsible for the spendthrift trust doc- trine are Nichols v . Eaton , 91 U.S. 716 ( 1875 ) , and Broadway National ...
... trust A is given a stream of income that A cannot alienate and her creditors cannot reach . The two decisions largely responsible for the spendthrift trust doc- trine are Nichols v . Eaton , 91 U.S. 716 ( 1875 ) , and Broadway National ...
Page 636
Jesse Dukeminier, Stanley M. Johanson. In holding that a spendthrift trust is subject to claims for alimony and support the court , in Cogswell v . Cogswell , supra , did not disclose the reasoning by which it reached its conclusion ...
Jesse Dukeminier, Stanley M. Johanson. In holding that a spendthrift trust is subject to claims for alimony and support the court , in Cogswell v . Cogswell , supra , did not disclose the reasoning by which it reached its conclusion ...
Page 641
... spendthrift trust beneficiary in a garnishment proceeding ordi- narily applicable to wage earners . See 2A Scott , supra , ยง152.1 . In several states , dollar limits are placed on the amount that can be shielded in a spendthrift trust ...
... spendthrift trust beneficiary in a garnishment proceeding ordi- narily applicable to wage earners . See 2A Scott , supra , ยง152.1 . In several states , dollar limits are placed on the amount that can be shielded in a spendthrift trust ...
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