Wills, Trusts and Estates - Jesse Dukeminier - Hardcover - 3rd ed

Summary: In this timely new edition, distinguished authors Dukeminier & Johanson build on the success of their phenomenally popular casebook WILL, TRUSTS, AND ESTATES with new coverage of non-traditional family arrangements, living wills, & much more. The authors blend cases selected for human interest as well as teaching value with provocative hypotheticals, cartoons, photographs, & other illustrations to comprehensively cov...er this area in a very lively, readable manner. Organized logically, the book begins with estate planning & its limitations, moves to wills & will substitutes, progresses to trusts, & concludes with a chapter on taxation. New topica coverage includes: babies inadvertently swapped in hospitals, surrogate mothers, lesbian adoption, & artificial insemination (including children conceived after sperm donor's death) living wills & powers of attorney for health care, including the Cruzan case & the Uniform Health Care Decisions Act a new chapter combining mental capacity & undue influence, which features the Seward Johnson will contest & related preventive lawyering issues shortened, more teachable chapters on future interests & perpetuities latest changes to the Uniform Probate Code a completely revised & reorganized trustee administration chapter Like its predecessors, this book is a lively, flexible, & understandable teaching tool that is accompanied by a detailed & witty Teacher's Manual, which is regarded as the best in the field. [read more]