Wills, Trusts, and Estates for Legal Assistants

The Fourth Edition has been brought up-to-date, reflecting recent developments such as the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 and its impact on Federal gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer taxes. The 2008 amendments to the Uniform Probate Code are presented along with important new material on trust protectors, the rights of same-sex partners, and physician-assisted suicide.

Features:

• ""learning by doing"" approach
  • emphasis on examples, applications, and exercises
  • hundreds real life situations with detailed explanations
• complete topic coverage
  • wills and trusts
  • intestate succession
  • estate administration
  • nonprobate transfers trusts
  • estate planning issues such as taxes and malpractice
• extensive pedagogy
  • marginal terms and glossary
  • ethical points
  • checklists
  • practice tips and sample forms
• balanced, experienced author team combines theory and practice
  • summary of chapters
  • a model course outline
  • exam questions, assignment ideas, and exercises
  • research guide for wills, trusts, and estates

Thoroughly updated, the revised Fourth Edition presents recent developments and trends including:

• Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 and its impact on Federal gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer taxes
• 2008 amendments to the Uniform Probate Code
• trust protectors
• rights of same-sex partners
• physician-assisted suicide