Wills, Trusts, and Estates (Aspen Casebook Series)

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, andattention to law reform to facilitate electronic versions of other estate planning documentsUpdated and extensively revised coverage of revocable trusts, with attention to new case law developments, especially in the revocation of such a trustUpdated and extensively revised treatment of lapse and conditions of survivorship to reflect new case law developmentsUpdated and extensively revised coverage of the principal and income problem, in particular concerning new case law on the power to adjustAttention across topics to ongoing law reform efforts on conflicts of laws in trusts and estatesUpdated coverage of wealth and income inequality and continuing proposals for a wealth taxProfessors and students will benefit from:Unique blend of wit, erudition, insight, and playfulness retained from the late Jesse DukeminierOrganization 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 planningA visually arresting two-color designInteresting cases that are not only fun to read, but fun to teachCases enhanced and connected to broader legal principles by well-written notes, questions, problems, and sidebarsCartoons, illustrations, wills and other case documents, and photographs that provide visual commentary and teaching aids Read more