This Understanding Trust and Estates updates a text praised by students and professors alike. The author offers a concise yet comprehensive overview of the law governing wills, trusts, and future interests. Understanding Trusts and Estates engages students with clear writing, realistic examples, and helpful graphic representations of present and future interests. By integrating the Uniform Probate Code, the Uniform Trust Code and the new Restatements into discussions of traditional doctrine, this treatise promotes a thorough understanding of both fundamental and current issues.
In addition to explaining basic concepts and significant cases and statutes, this text provides step-by-step tools for analyzing topics as diverse as spousal election, future interests and slayers’ statutes. Footnotes increase student understanding by providing internal cross-references and additional examples. Citations to journals, treatises, and current books aid further research.
The Lexis-Nexis/Matthew Bender Understanding Series is reknowned among law students and legal practitioners for offering comprehensive treatments on over 30 legal topic areas. These books complement legal hornbooks to provide superlative legal reference tools. |
