Loring: A Trustee's Handbook

Trustees today must consider CERCLA, RICO, Medicaid, ERISA, IRAs, and a host of other modern legal growths that have been grafted on to the ancient body of the law of trusts. A Trustee's Handbook, with unmatched clarity and insight, answers all the trustee's basic, new, and recurring questions about trustees' duties, beneficiaries' rights, and third party rights under current federal and state law.

Among this convenient book's special features you'll find:

* Trust Termination Checklist . A 29-item checklist of things to do to ensure that you will have done everything possible to properly terminate a trust and avoid the absolute liability entailed by misdelivery.
* State Law Source Catalog . A catalog of multi-state charts, surveys, and string citations, organized by topic, providing a detailed list of sources for state laws governing trusts.
* Important Hard-to-Find Trust-Related Law . Bonds and sureties, bankruptcy issues, the missing beneficiary problem, revocable inter vivos trusts, guardians ad litem, offshore asset protection trusts, distribution to minors, essential trust doctrines that today's trustees need to understand, and much more.