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Wills, Trusts and Estates Examples & Explanations, 4e |  | Author: Beyer
Publisher: Aspen Publishers
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 21276
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4
Pages: 760
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 6.9 x 1.3
ISBN: 0735562407
Dewey Decimal Number: 346.7305
EAN: 9780735562400
ASIN: 0735562407
Publication Date: February 21, 2007
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Product Description
This popular study guide helps students master the complexities of wills, trusts, and estates through a combination of textual material and well-written, comprehensive examples, explanations, and questions. Examples & Explanations: Wills, Trusts, and Estates, Fourth Edition, provides students with the essential background and review materials they need to practice applying legal concepts to fact patterns. Among the features that make this high-quality study 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 & 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
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 Excellent reference tool December 17, 2007
lobelia
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is an excellent reference tool, especially for estate and trust administration paralegals. It is good for those with a low to intermediate knowledge base of the subjects.
 One of the weaker E&E titles December 6, 2007
jen (San Francisco, CA)
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
I normally love E&E. (The civil procedure E&E is wonderful). This one highly lacks.
The explanations of the concepts (before the examples) are poor. They barely skim the surface of certain concepts and as a result, I kept having to use another supplements to 'supplement' the explanations of this supplement. The explanations do not not give you enough black letter law.
The strength in this title - UPC intestate distribution discussion and examples. That's about it.
Probably Not What You're Looking For November 29, 2009
Barney Ross (Washington, DC)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
You won't buy this book unless you're taking a law school course on trusts and estates. You want a book that will help you pass your exam. It's absurd to think that anyone else would even consider this particular book.
Sadly, no one mentioned this to Gerry Beyer. Instead of fleshing out concepts and explaining the material the way better E&E volumes do (see Glannon's brilliant Civil Procedure), Beyer just skims over the substantive material. Few topics are afforded more than a short paragraph, and his examples seem more obligatory than illustrative. He almost never references case law, even when obvious important cases warrant discussion.
With his constant preaching on the elements of good practice and superficial treatment of substantive law, it often feels like Beyer is trying to write a dummies guide to trust and estate practice. New lawyers might appreciate his insights, if they're trying to begin practicing in this field, but law students (who, as I said, comprise the entire market for this book) would be better served by a meatier discussion of the law.
If you're trying to make up for poor study habits in the week before an exam, and you're just not satisfied with the free outlines that litter the internet, buy this book. It's a quick read and it won't bog you down with more information than you can memorize. Anyone else should look elsewhere.
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