A CALIFORNIA COMPANION includes all of the statutes required for The California Bar Exam, plus selected additional statutes, covering: <ul>
<li> Intestate succession </li> <li> Wills, no-contest clauses </li> <li> Non-probate transfers </li> <li> Disqualified transferees </li> <li> Powers of appointment </li> <li> Rights of creditors to reach trust assets </li> <li> Trustee's duty to inform and account </li> </ul>
A CALIFORNIA COMPANION features thirty-seven California cases and includes notes on thirty-five others, covering: <ul>
<li> Time limits on filing petition to probate will and claiming property of the decedent </li> <li> Inheritance by, from, and through adopted and non-marital children </li> <li> Equitable adoption </li> <li> Inheritance by children conceived after death of parent </li> <li> Execution and revocation of formal and holographic wills </li> <li> Forfeiture for elder abuse </li> <li> Disqualified transferees &amp; certificates of independent review </li> <li> Attorney's malpractice liability to intended beneficiaries </li> <li> No contest clauses </li> <li> Determining whether beneficiary survived decedent </li> <li> Creating and revoking trusts </li> <li> Severing a joint tenancy &amp; right to withdraw funds from joint account </li> <li> Special needs trusts </li> <li> Rights of creditors in trust assets </li> </ul>
New in the 2011 EDITION: Major statutory changes: <ul>
<li> 21360-21392 (disqualified transferees) </li> <li> 15408 (termination of trust with uneconomically low principal) </li> <li> 16060.7-16064 (trustee s duty to inform and account to beneficiaries) </li> <li> 17200 (petitioning court to determine trust matters) </li> </ul> New cases: <ul>
<li> Aguilar v. Aguilar </li> <li> Chatard v. Oveross </li> <li> Citizens Business Bank v. Carrano </li> <li> Estate of Heggstad </li> <li> Estate of Lensch </li> <li> Estate of Stoker </li> <li> Estate of Winans </li> <li> Estate of Ziegler </li> <li> Shewry v. Arnold </li> </ul>

California Companion for Course Will Trust Estates, 2011-2012 Case and Statutory Supplement

Susan F. French

Aspen Publishers

Cases and Text on Property, Fifth Edition, preserves the character of its esteemed predecessors with: 
<li>introductory chapters that unveil the important historical perspective that infuses the book as the authors put contemporary property law in historical context. </li>
<li>classic cases and absorbing text that match the high standard of quality established by the late Casner and Leach. </li>
<li>problems that are seamlessly integrated with cases and notes. </li>
<li>a broad scope of coverage that ranges from interests protected as property, to title transfers, landlord and tenant law, housing discrimination, and land-use regulation. When you examine this masterful revision, you'll notice many important changes: </li>
<li>new author team - Professors French, Korngold, and VanderVelde are eminently qualified to guide this exceptional casebook into the 21st century. </li>
<li>complete updating - Revised coverage includes new forms of property rights, such as computer-related intellectual property, and property issues that arise out of the latest developments in biotechnology. </li>
<li>new cases and problems appear throughout the book. </li>
<li>improved organization - discrete chapters on water, oil, gas, and air rights from previous editions are now folded into chapters that encompass those topics; and material on deeds, mortgages, and title insurance can now be found in the chapter on closings</li>

Cases and Text on Property, Fifth Edition

W. Barton Leach

The late A. James Casner

Business

A California Companion for the Course in Wills, Trusts, and Estates: 2008 Case and Statutory Supplement

Tax Law

Aspen Publishers, Inc.

Whether you're using Dukeminier, Sitkoff, and Lindgren's, Wills, Trusts, and Estates, Eighth Edition or any other Property or Wills, Trusts, and Estates casebook, be sure to use A California Companion for the Course in Wills, Trusts, and Estates. This 2009-2010 Supplement includes all of the statutes required for The California Bar Exam plus selected additional statutes covering: <ul>
<li> Intestate succession </li> <li> Powers of appointment </li> <li> Wills, no-contest clauses </li> <li> Future interests </li> <li> Non-probate transfers </li> <li> Rights of creditors to reach trust assets </li> <li> Disqualified transferees </li> </ul>
 A California Companion features thirty-six principal California cases determining: <ul>
<li> Inheritance by, from, and through adopted and non-marital children </li> <li> Equitable adoption </li> <li> Inheritance by children conceived after death of parent </li> <li> Execution and revocation of formal and holographic wills </li> <li> Forfeiture for elder abuse </li> <li> Disqualified transferees </li> <li> Attorney liability to intended beneficiaries for malpractice </li> <li> Trust revocation </li> <li> Rights of creditors in trust assets </li> <li> Rights of beneficiaries to trust accounting </li> </ul>
 New in the 2009–2010 Edition Major statutory changes: <ul>
<li> §§ 23130-23135 (no contest clause) </li> <li> § 6110(c)(2) (allows excuse of compliance with certain formalities for execution of wills) </li> <li> § 15212 (pet trusts) </li> </ul>
 New cases: <ul>
<li> Estate of Earley </li> <li> Estate of Reeves </li> <li> Estate of Will </li> <li> Vernoff v. Astrue </li> <li> Brown v. LaBow </li> <li> Cabral v. Soares </li> <li> Estate of Shellenbarger </li> <li> Masry v. Masry </li> <li> In re Neuton </li> <li> Estate of Williams </li> <li> Dorn v. Solomon </li> <li> Estate of Ivey </li> </ul>

California Companion for Course in Wills Trusts Estates 09-10 Sup

Legal Education

Wolters Kluwer/Law & Business

A California Companion for the Course in Wills, Trusts, and Estates, 2013-2014: Selected Cases and Statutes Including All Statutes Required for the California Bar Exam (Aspen Select)

A CALIFORNIA COMPANION includes all of the statutes required for the California Bar Exam plus selected additional statutes covering:
Intestate succession
<li>Wills, no-contest clauses </li>
<li>Adopted, step, and non-marital children</li>
<li>Posthumously conceived children</li>
<li>Disqualified transferees</li>
<li>Financial elder abuse</li>
<li>Non-probate transfers</li>
<li>Powers of appointment</li>
<li>Trustee s duty to inform and account</li>
<li>Rights of creditors to reach trust assets</li>
A CALIFORNIA COMPANION features forty-seven principal California cases and fifty-seven note cases determining:
<li>Time limits for filing wills and claims to estate property</li>
<li>Inheritance by, from, and through adopted and non-marital children</li>
<li>Equitable adoption</li>
<li>Inheritance by children conceived after death of parent</li>
<li>Execution and revocation of formal and holographic wills</li>
<li>Validity of no-contest clauses</li>
<li>Standing to claim elder abuse and limits on remedy</li>
<li>Disqualified transferees</li>
<li>Tests for mental capacity</li>
<li>Undue influence</li>
<li>Attorney liability to intended beneficiaries for malpractice</li>
<li>Tort of intentional interference with expected inheritance</li>
<li>Trust revocation</li>
<li>Severance of joint tenancy</li>
<li>Rights of creditors in trust assets</li>
<li>Rights of beneficiaries to trust accounting</li>
<li>Remainder beneficiaries standing to sue trustee of revocable trust</li>
New in the 2015 2016 Edition:
Statutory changes
<ul>
<li>All statutes updated to May 29, 2015</li>
<li>Bills introduced in 2015-2016 legislative session</li>
</ul>
New cases
<li>Bounds v. Superior Court</li>
<li>Marriage of Greenway</li>
<li>Burnham v. Calif. Pub. Emp. Ret. System</li>
<li>McMackin v. Ehrheart</li>
<li>Donkin v. Donkin</li>
<li> Sefton v. Sefton (II)</li>
<li>Estate of Trikha</li>
<li>Siegel v. Fife</li>
<li>Frealy v. Reynolds</li>
<li>Straley v. Gamble</li>
<li>Graham-Sult v. Clainos</li>
<li>Ukkestad v. RBS Asset Finance, Inc.</li>
<li>Jenkins v. Teegarden</li>
<li>Vance v. Bizek</li>
<li>Lintz v. Lintz</li>

A California Companion for the Course in Wills, Trusts, and Estates, 2015 - 2016 (Aspen Select)

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This completely revised and streamlined Seventh Edition of Cases and Text on Property by Susan Fletcher French and Gerald Korngold is smart, compact, and thoughtful. The carefully selected and edited cases and problems give students what they need to learn about Property law in the 21st Century. In addition to ample coverage of traditional Property subjects, the text includes substantial coverage of intellectual property, modern servitudes law, common interest communities, and constitutional limits on governmental power to acquire and regulate property. New to the Seventh Edition: <ul>
<li>A reorganization of Chapter 4 (Property Rights in Creative Works) to begin with copyright, with notes on the Google and TVEyes cases, and an important new case on patent exhaustion, Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark Int’l, Inc.</li> <li>Important new cases Marbar, Inc. v. Katz; Craig Wrecking Co. v. S.G. Loewendick &amp; Sons, Inc.; Vallely Investments, L.P. v. Bancamerica Commercial Corp; Sparks v. Fidelity Nat’l Title Ins. Co.; and Coons v. Carstensen</li> <li>A new subsection in Chapter 13 (The Takings Clause) that highlights coverage of the public trust doctrine with two new Supreme Court cases, Murr v. Wisconsin and Horne v. Dep’t of Agriculture</li> <li>The authors have continued to revise and streamline the casebook without adding additional pages to this new edition.</li> </ul>
Professors and students will benefit from: <ul>
<li>Traditional cases-and-notes pedagogy with integrated problems</li> <li>Introductory chapters that put contemporary property law in historical context</li> <li>A casebook renowned for its absorbing text and teachable cases that many users have stayed with for the entire span of their careers</li> <li>A casebook well-suited for a 4-unit Property course, but also with sufficient material that it can readily be adapted for a 5- or 6-unit course</li> </ul>
CasebookConnect features: ONLINE E-BOOK Law school comes with a lot of reading, so access your enhanced e-book anytime, anywhere to keep up with your coursework. Highlight, take notes in the margins, and search the full text to quickly find coverage of legal topics. PRACTICE QUESTIONS Quiz yourself before class and prep for your exam in the Study Center. Practice questions from Examples &amp; Explanations, Emanuel Law Outlines, Emanuel Law in a Flash flashcards, and other best-selling study aid series help you study for exams while tracking your strengths and weaknesses to help optimize your study time. OUTLINE TOOL Most professors will tell you that starting your outline early is key to being successful in your law school classes. The Outline Tool automatically populates your notes and highlights from the e-book into an editable format to accelerate your outline creation and increase study time later in the semester.

Cases and Text on Property [Connected eBook with Study Center] (Aspen Casebook)

Gerald Korngold

Aspen Publishing

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This completely revised and streamlined Seventh Edition of Cases and Text on Property by Susan Fletcher French and Gerald Korngold is smart, compact, and thoughtful. The carefully selected and edited cases and problems give students what they need to learn about Property law in the 21st Century. In addition to ample coverage of traditional Property subjects, the text includes substantial coverage of intellectual property, modern servitudes law, common interest communities, and constitutional limits on governmental power to acquire and regulate property. New to the Seventh Edition: <ul>
<li>A reorganization of Chapter 4 (Property Rights in Creative Works) to begin with copyright, with notes on the Google and TVEyes cases, and an important new case on patent exhaustion, Impression Products, Inc. v. Lexmark Int’l, Inc.</li> <li>Important new cases Marbar, Inc. v. Katz; Craig Wrecking Co. v. S.G. Loewendick &amp; Sons, Inc.; Vallely Investments, L.P. v. Bancamerica Commercial Corp; Sparks v. Fidelity Nat’l Title Ins. Co.; and Coons v. Carstensen</li> <li>A new subsection in Chapter 13 (The Takings Clause) that highlights coverage of the public trust doctrine with two new Supreme Court cases, Murr v. Wisconsin and Horne v. Dep’t of Agriculture</li> <li>The authors have continued to revise and streamline the casebook without adding additional pages to this new edition.</li> </ul>
Professors and students will benefit from: <ul>
<li>Traditional cases-and-notes pedagogy with integrated problems</li> <li>Introductory chapters that put contemporary property law in historical context</li> <li>A casebook renowned for its absorbing text and teachable cases that many users have stayed with for the entire span of their careers</li> <li>A casebook well-suited for a 4-unit Property course, but also with sufficient material that it can readily be adapted for a 5- or 6-unit course</li> </ul>
CasebookConnect features: ONLINE E-BOOK Law school comes with a lot of reading, so access your enhanced e-book anytime, anywhere to keep up with your coursework. Highlight, take notes in the margins, and search the full text to quickly find coverage of legal topics. PRACTICE QUESTIONS Quiz yourself before class and prep for your exam in the Study Center. Practice questions from Examples &amp; Explanations, Emanuel Law Outlines, Emanuel Law in a Flash flashcards, and other best-selling study aid series help you study for exams while tracking your strengths and weaknesses to help optimize your study time. OUTLINE TOOL Most professors will tell you that starting your outline early is key to being successful in your law school classes. The Outline Tool automatically populates your notes and highlights from the e-book into an editable format to accelerate your outline creation and increase study time later in the semester.

Cases and Text on Property [Connected Casebook] (Aspen Casebook) (Looseleaf)

Wolters Kluwer

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