Estates and Trusts (University Casebook Series)

This title is a functional approach to trusts and estates, using questions and problems to focus student attention on issues that face estate planners, litigators and policy makers. It integrates discussion of drafting and planning issues with its treatment of doctrine and policy. The 4th edition offers: a new chapter on the importance of integrating non-probate mechanisms into the estate planincreased emphasis on trustee fiduciary duties and estate and trust administrationrecently decided cases addressing cutting-edge issues exploration of current trends in wills and trusts lawnew cases that illustrate doctrines such as DRR and lapsetreatment of the 2010 estate tax changescoverage of the extensive 2008 amendments to the UPC