Contemporary Trusts and Estates (Aspen Casebook) - Hardcover

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

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1454880899 ISBN 13: 9781454880899

Publisher: Aspen Opco Llc, 2016

Synopsis

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The third edition of Contemporary Trusts and Estates captures the rapid evolution of doctrine in trusts and estates law that has occurred over the past half-century in response to profound societal and demographic changes. Based on recent developments in legal education, this casebook integrates legal analysis, judgment and perspective, ethics, and practice skills. It focuses simultaneously on the theoretical foundations and practical applications of the material, teaching students by using traditional case analysis and, at the professor’s option, innovative exercises. 

Features:

• Newly designed, with Wills now presented before Trusts
• New problems, exercises and cases ¿ Post-Obergefell v. Hodges developments for same-sex families
• More material on decanting and the new Uniform Trust Decanting Act
• Inclusion of the Uniform Powers of Appointment Act
• Discussion of planning for digital assets
• Incorporation of 2016 ACTEC Commentary on the Model Rules

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Edition details

• Publisher: Aspen Opco Llc
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1454880899
• ISBN 13: 9781454880899
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 896