Wills, Trusts, and EstatesAll the great features you've come to expect in previous editions are here! Along with expertly selected cases, this superb revision delivers comprehensive coverage and a flexible organization with chapters that can be easily rearranged or omitted to fit every instructor's preferences. Written with the lively intelligence that has made this book so popular, "Wills, Trusts, and Estates", Sixth Edition provides exactly what a course in estates and trusts should offer to students: engaging lessons in thinking critically about problems in family wealth transmission. The Distinctly Different Casebook -- Clear, concise text -- combined with witty and insightful notes -- make this a casebook that students love to read -- Cases that hold students' interest, illustrate concepts, and make the material extremely accessible -- evidence of the authors' legendary talent for selecting effective cases -- Comprehensiveness and flexibility of coverage give you the freedom to choose precisely which material you want to teach -- and in the topic sequence that you prefer -- Solid, practical models of wills and trusts help students build the competence they will require as practitioners in the estates and trusts field -- Brilliant problems and questions encourage and guide students in considering and comparing alternative solutions to problems in family wealth transmission -- An examination of historical roots, where appropriate, gives students a better understanding of some peculiarities of modern law and of the continuing growth of the law -- An outstanding Teacher's Manual contains answers to all problems and offers additional insights on cases |
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which that individual or class would have succeeded passes as if that individual
or each member of that class had disclaimed his [or her] intestate share. $2-102.
SHARE OF SPOUSE" The intestate share of a decedent's surviving spouse is: (1)
...
NOTE: MUST THE SURVIVING SPOUSE ACCEPT A LIFE ESTATE 2 Once the
amount of the elective share has been determined, when the surviving spouse
elects against the will, she is usually credited (or, in legal language, “charged”)
with ...
the amount necessary to pay for the period of ineligibility which would result from
the spouse's failure to elect. How do these cases square with the idea that the
elective share is personal to the surviving spouse (supra page 484) and that ...
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| Title | Wills, Trusts, and Estates Casebook Series |
| Authors | Jesse Dukeminier, Stanley M. Johanson |
| Edition | 6, illustrated |
| Publisher | Aspen Law & Business, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0735506361, 9780735506367 |
| Length | 1111 pages |
| Subjects | › Law / Estates & Trusts |
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