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Widely hailed as one of the best casebooks in legal education, this comprehensive text combines interesting cases, thoughtful analysis, notes, images, and a clear organization for an excellent teaching tool. Cartoons, illustrations, case documents, and photographs provide useful visual commentary. Sidebars on relevant persons, places, and things provide interesting and sometimes humorous context. A comprehensive Teacher’s Manual provides a complete teaching summary of all materials in the book, and comprehensive PowerPoint slides provide helpful structure for classroom organization. 

New to the Twelfth Edition: 
  • Updated treatment of electronic or digital wills, with:
    • a completely revised section on video wills to reflect new case law developments, and
    • attention to law reform to facilitate electronic versions of other estate planning documents
  • Updated and extensively revised coverage of revocable trusts, with attention to new case law developments, especially in the revocation of such a trust
  • Updated and extensively revised treatment of lapse and conditions of survivorship to reflect new case law developments
  • Updated and extensively revised coverage of the principal and income problem, in particular concerning new case law on the power to adjust
  • Attention across topics to ongoing law reform efforts on conflicts of laws in trusts and estates
  • Updated coverage of wealth and income inequality and continuing proposals for a wealth tax
Professors and students will benefit from: 
  • Unique blend of wit, erudition, insight, and playfulness retained from the late Jesse Dukeminier
  • Organization that covers all the key topics in a logical, clear format, including a completely revised section on video wills and attention to reform to facilitate electronic versions of estate planning
  • A visually arresting two-color design
  • Interesting cases that are not only fun to read, but fun to teach
  • Cases enhanced and connected to broader legal principles by well-written notes, questions, problems, and sidebars
  • Cartoons, illustrations, wills and other case documents, and photographs that provide visual commentary and teaching aids

 

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    Wills, Trusts, and Estates: [Connected eBook with Study Center]
    Buy a new version of this textbook and receive access to the Connected eBook with Study Center on Casebook Connect, including lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities. Access also includes practice questions, an outline tool, and other helpful resources. Connected eBooks provide what you need most to be successful in your law school classes.



    Widely hailed as one of the best casebooks in legal education, this comprehensive text combines interesting cases, thoughtful analysis, notes, images, and a clear organization for an excellent teaching tool. Cartoons, illustrations, case documents, and photographs provide useful visual commentary. Sidebars on relevant persons, places, and things provide interesting and sometimes humorous context. A comprehensive Teacher’s Manual provides a complete teaching summary of all materials in the book, and comprehensive PowerPoint slides provide helpful structure for classroom organization. 

    New to the Twelfth Edition: 
    • Updated treatment of electronic or digital wills, with:
      • a completely revised section on video wills to reflect new case law developments, and
      • attention to law reform to facilitate electronic versions of other estate planning documents
    • Updated and extensively revised coverage of revocable trusts, with attention to new case law developments, especially in the revocation of such a trust
    • Updated and extensively revised treatment of lapse and conditions of survivorship to reflect new case law developments
    • Updated and extensively revised coverage of the principal and income problem, in particular concerning new case law on the power to adjust
    • Attention across topics to ongoing law reform efforts on conflicts of laws in trusts and estates
    • Updated coverage of wealth and income inequality and continuing proposals for a wealth tax
    Professors and students will benefit from: 
    • Unique blend of wit, erudition, insight, and playfulness retained from the late Jesse Dukeminier
    • Organization that covers all the key topics in a logical, clear format, including a completely revised section on video wills and attention to reform to facilitate electronic versions of estate planning
    • A visually arresting two-color design
    • Interesting cases that are not only fun to read, but fun to teach
    • Cases enhanced and connected to broader legal principles by well-written notes, questions, problems, and sidebars
    • Cartoons, illustrations, wills and other case documents, and photographs that provide visual commentary and teaching aids

     

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      Wills, Trusts, and Estates: [Connected eBook with Study Center]

      Wills, Trusts, and Estates: [Connected eBook with Study Center]

      Wills, Trusts, and Estates: [Connected eBook with Study Center]

      Wills, Trusts, and Estates: [Connected eBook with Study Center]

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      Buy a new version of this textbook and receive access to the Connected eBook with Study Center on Casebook Connect, including lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities. Access also includes practice questions, an outline tool, and other helpful resources. Connected eBooks provide what you need most to be successful in your law school classes.



      Widely hailed as one of the best casebooks in legal education, this comprehensive text combines interesting cases, thoughtful analysis, notes, images, and a clear organization for an excellent teaching tool. Cartoons, illustrations, case documents, and photographs provide useful visual commentary. Sidebars on relevant persons, places, and things provide interesting and sometimes humorous context. A comprehensive Teacher’s Manual provides a complete teaching summary of all materials in the book, and comprehensive PowerPoint slides provide helpful structure for classroom organization. 

      New to the Twelfth Edition: 
      • Updated treatment of electronic or digital wills, with:
        • a completely revised section on video wills to reflect new case law developments, and
        • attention to law reform to facilitate electronic versions of other estate planning documents
      • Updated and extensively revised coverage of revocable trusts, with attention to new case law developments, especially in the revocation of such a trust
      • Updated and extensively revised treatment of lapse and conditions of survivorship to reflect new case law developments
      • Updated and extensively revised coverage of the principal and income problem, in particular concerning new case law on the power to adjust
      • Attention across topics to ongoing law reform efforts on conflicts of laws in trusts and estates
      • Updated coverage of wealth and income inequality and continuing proposals for a wealth tax
      Professors and students will benefit from: 
      • Unique blend of wit, erudition, insight, and playfulness retained from the late Jesse Dukeminier
      • Organization that covers all the key topics in a logical, clear format, including a completely revised section on video wills and attention to reform to facilitate electronic versions of estate planning
      • A visually arresting two-color design
      • Interesting cases that are not only fun to read, but fun to teach
      • Cases enhanced and connected to broader legal principles by well-written notes, questions, problems, and sidebars
      • Cartoons, illustrations, wills and other case documents, and photographs that provide visual commentary and teaching aids

       

        Product Details

        ISBN-13: 9798892075107
        Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
        Publication date: 11/03/2025
        Series: Aspen Casebook Series
        Edition description: Twelfth Edition
        Pages: 1088
        Product dimensions: 7.38(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

        Table of Contents

        SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

        Contents 
        List of Illustrations 
        Preface 
        Acknowledgments 

        Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION: FREEDOM OF DISPOSITION 
        Chapter 2 INTESTACY: AN ESTATE PLAN BY DEFAULT 
        Chapter 3 WILLS: FORMALITIES AND FORMS 
        Chapter 4 WILLS: CAPACITY AND CONTESTS 
        Chapter 5 WILLS: CONSTRUCTION 
        Chapter 6 TRUSTS: CHARACTERISTICS AND CREATION 
        Chapter 7 NONPROBATE TRANSFERS AND PLANNING
        FOR INCAPACITY 
        Chapter 8 LIMITS ON FREEDOM OF DISPOSITION:
        PROTECTION OF THE SPOUSE AND CHILDREN 
        Chapter 9 TRUSTS: FIDUCIARY ADMINISTRATION 
        Chapter 10 TRUSTS: ALIENATION AND MODIFICATION 
        Chapter 11 TRUSTS: CHARITABLE PURPOSES, CY PRES,
        AND SUPERVISION 
        Chapter 12 TRUSTS: POWERS OF APPOINTMENT 
        Chapter 13 TRUSTS: CONSTRUCTION AND FUTURE
        INTERESTS 
        Chapter 14 THE RULE AGAINST PERPETUITIES AND
        TRUST DURATION 
        Chapter 15 WEALTH TRANSFER TAXATION 

        Table of Cases 
        Author Index 
        Index 

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