Contemporary Trusts and Estates: An Experimental Approach (Aspen Casebook Series) - Hardcover

Gary, Susan N.; Borison, Jerome; Cahn, Naomi R.; Monopoli, Paula A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1454851422 ISBN 13: 9781454851424

Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, 2014

Synopsis

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Contemporary Trusts and Estates: An Experiential Approach uses cases and statutory materials, along with exercises and problems, to integrate legal analysis and practice skills. Consistent with the Carnegie Report‘s call for more practice skills, it includes exercises in document drafting, role-playing, and letter writing to clients. Reproduces statutory materials and the Restatement, so that no separate supplement is required. Sample syllabi are included in the Teacher’s Manual.

Features:

• New and Revised Problems, Exercise and Examples;
• Up-to-date coverage of Same-Sex Relationship Issues, Including the Windsor case
• New and Revised Sections on Will Contests, Trust, Protectors, Planning for Digital Assets
• The Astrue case and its Impact on Posthumously Conceived Children.
• New 2-color design with sidebars¿

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About this title

About the Author

Naomi Cahn is John Theodore Fey Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School. Her previous books include Red Families v. Blue Families, Test Tube Families (NYU Press 2009), Families By Law: An Adoption Reader (NYU Press 2004), and Confinements: Fertility and Infertility in Contemporary Culture.

Paula A. Monopoli, Professor of Law at the Southwestern University School of Law and Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Maryland School of Law, practiced trusts and estates law for several years. She has published articles in numerous law reviews and journals. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1454851422
• ISBN 13: 9781454851424
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 904