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Wills, Trusts, And Estates : A Contemporary Approach (2023), Lloyd Bonfield, Joanna L. Grossman, William P. Lapiana
Wills, Trusts, And Estates : A Contemporary Approach (2023), Lloyd Bonfield, Joanna L. Grossman, William P. Lapiana
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is casebook is designed to present in a comprehensive yet streamlined fashion the law of Wills, Trusts, and Future Interests to 21st–century law students. It assists the student in developing an understanding of the core legal concepts critical to a grasp of wills, trusts and future interests in a novel format that is clear and easy to understand, while maintaining the intellectual rigor of the subject. The book covers the standard topics, but is organized in an innovative fashion. It begins with an estate planning problem which introduces the student to the craft of the practitioner, providing context for the …
Commentaries On The Model Rules Of Professional Conduct, Thomas Andrews, Karen Boxx
Commentaries On The Model Rules Of Professional Conduct, Thomas Andrews, Karen Boxx
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This Fifth Edition of the ACTEC Commentaries continues the tradition of providing guidance on the Model Rules of Professional Conduct particular to estate and trust practitioners. The Fifth Edition update to the Commentaries takes account of amendments to the Model Rules adopted since the 2005 Fourth Edition, including those proposed by the American Bar Association Commission on Ethics 20/20 as adopted by the ABA in 2012 and 2013. It is current through August 31, 2015 as there have been no amendments to the Model Rules since 2013.
In addition to these updates, we have added Commentary and Annotations to four …
Inside Wills And Trusts: What Matters And Why, William P. Lapiana
Inside Wills And Trusts: What Matters And Why, William P. Lapiana
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Inside Wills and Trusts: What Matters and Why offers students a concise, student-friendly study aid that provides a big-picture view of how all of the essential elements of this field fit together as part of a coherent framework of legal theory and practice. Using a wide variety of pedagogical aids, this new addition to the successful Inside Series offers basic coverage of the main themes of wills and trusts law, focusing on what matters and why, while providing students multiple opportunities for review.
The "Estate Planning" Interviewer, Thomas L. Shaffer
The "Estate Planning" Interviewer, Thomas L. Shaffer
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Book Introduction
Professor Shaffer's article The "Estate Planning" Interviewer is the Introduction: Part II, in J.K. Lasser's Estate Tax Techniques on pages INT-25 to INT-51
Titles To Real Property Acquired Originally And By Transfer Inter Vivos, Ralph W. Aigler
Titles To Real Property Acquired Originally And By Transfer Inter Vivos, Ralph W. Aigler
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Many law teachers have felt that Titles should be the basis of the beginning course in Property. Although this volume appears as number three in a series of casebooks covering the law of Property, it is believed that the subject-matter of the volume, with possibly some shifts in order of the topics, is such that it may well be used in that way.
Corporations And Express Trusts As Business Organizations, Horace L. Wilgus
Corporations And Express Trusts As Business Organizations, Horace L. Wilgus
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The advantages of incorporation have long been recognized and frequently referred to in our law ... Upon the other hand the special advantages of Express Trusts have recently been stated .... It is my purpose to compare these two, -- Corporations and Express Trusts, -- in such detail as my time will permit, to discover, if perchance we may, something of the strength and weakness of each, for business purposes, under present day conditions.
Trusts And Duties Of Trustees: Instruction Paper, George L. Clark
Trusts And Duties Of Trustees: Instruction Paper, George L. Clark
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“Trusts and Duties of Trustees: Instruction Paper” is an overview of the history and current [1912] practice regarding express trusts. Chapters: Chapter I. Origin and Requisites of Expressed Trusts; Chapter II. Nature and Requisites of Express Trusts; Chapter III. Nature of Cestui Que Trust’s Interest; Chapter IV. Resulting and Constructive Trusts; Chapter V. Transfer of Trust Property; Chapter VI. Relinquishment of a Trust; Chapter VII. Duties of a Trustee. Included is an “Examination Paper” for self-testing -- the material is designed to facilitate distance learning under the auspices of the American School of Correspondence based in Chicago, Illinois, as of …
Decisions, Statutes, & C., Concerning The Law Of Estates In Land, John R. Rood
Decisions, Statutes, & C., Concerning The Law Of Estates In Land, John R. Rood
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“The following pages have been printed from the notes made from time to time while preparing to conduct exercises in the first course on real property at the University of Michigan, using Blackstone’s Commentaries on the text.… In this edition several typographical errors in the first impression have been discovered and corrected. The scope of the work has also been extended by numerous additions throughout, and by inserting the chapters on uses, trusts, and powers, which did not appear in the first edition.
JOHN R. ROOD
Dated, Ann Arbor, February 25th, 1910” --Preface.
Decisions, Statutes, & C., Concerning The Law Of Estates In Land, John R. Rood
Decisions, Statutes, & C., Concerning The Law Of Estates In Land, John R. Rood
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“The following pages have been printed from the notes made from time to time while preparing to conduct exercises in the first course on real property at the University of Michigan, using Blackstone’s Commentaries on the text. The design has been to present the great monuments which mark epochs in the various branches on the subject, with only an occasional late example… The present is a temporary edition, made to try out the serviceability of such a book by use in class… The editing has been rather hurriedly done, and the charity of the reader is requested.” --Preface
The Conveyance Of Estates In Fee By Deed : Being A Statement Of The Principles Of Law Involved In The Drafting And Interpretation Of Deeds Of Conveyance And In The Examination Of Title To Real Property, James H. Brewster
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The purpose of the writer has been to state the principles of law applicable to the transfer of the title to real property by deed, in such manner as to assist one in drafting and interpreting the instrument of transfer.
A Treatise On The Law Of Wills: Including Also Gifts Causa Mortis And A Summary Of The Law Of Descent, Distribution And Administration, John R. Rood
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“The present work was undertaken with the purpose of furnishing a substantial treatise on the whole law of succession in one volume. Within this scheme were comprehended the separate topics following: 1, gifts causa mortis, by reason of their resemblance to legacies; 2, wills, including all legal questions and doctrines peculiar to wills; 3, the substantive law of descent and distribution; and 4, the adjective law of succession, including the administration of both testate and intestate estates.”--Preface.
Cases On The Law Of Succession To Property After The Death Of The Owner, Floyd R. Mechem
Cases On The Law Of Succession To Property After The Death Of The Owner, Floyd R. Mechem
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“The following cases have been printed at the request of Professor Mechem, of the Law Department of the University of Michigan, for use in connection with his lectures in that law school. They have been chiefly selected from Reeves’ Cases on Wills and Abbott’s Cases on Descent, Wills, and Administration.” Title page.