Description
Among the features that make this high-quality guide popular with both students and instructors: - comprehensive coverage -- the text covers intestacy, wills, and trusts, including nonprobate assets, estate administration, wealth transfer taxation (gift tax, estate tax, generation-skipping transfer tax), disability and death planning, and malpractice/professional responsibility - a conversational writing style that is clear, accessible, and holds students' interest - uses the Examples and Explanations format to help students learn in a step-by-step manner and also includes comprehensive questions, with a variety of issues in one fact situation, that are similar to those on law school and bar examinations - casebook correlation charts that make it easy to use the study guide with any of the seven most popular casebooks - a "learning by doing" approach that provides students with the opportunity to evaluate how well they can apply what they have just learned - practical suggestions throughout the text that enhance its pedagogical value and give students an appreciation of the how the concepts apply in the real world - samples of will and trust provisions and an extensively annotated model will - an overview of general nationwide rules - a comprehensive, student-friendly index that allows students to easily find the information they seek - tables for quick location of material relevant to the Uniform Probate Code, Uniform Trust Code, and Internal Revenue Code - updates available on author's website: www.ProfessorBeyer.com Fine-tuned and updated, the Fourth Edition offers: - materials on recent developments, including: transfer of death deeds; self-settled spendthrift trusts; Rule Against Perpetuities reform; federal gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer tax; Uniform Trust Code; rights of same-sex partners; Medicaid planning; physician-assisted suicide - revised examples that reflect the updated content - updated casebook correlation tables reflecting new editions of the major casebooks
