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

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:

• Intestate succession
• Powers of appointment
• Wills, no-contest clauses
• Future interests
• Non-probate transfers
• Rights of creditors to reach trust assets
• Disqualified transferees

A California Companion features thirty-six principal California cases determining:

• Inheritance by, from, and through adopted and non-marital children
• Equitable adoption
• Inheritance by children conceived after death of parent
• Execution and revocation of formal and holographic wills
• Forfeiture for elder abuse
• Disqualified transferees
• Attorney liability to intended beneficiaries for malpractice
• Trust revocation
• Rights of creditors in trust assets
• Rights of beneficiaries to trust accounting

New in the 2009–2010 Edition

Major statutory changes:

• §§ 23130-23135 (no contest clause)
• § 6110(c)(2) (allows excuse of compliance with certain formalities for execution of wills)
• § 15212 (pet trusts)

New cases:

• Estate of Earley
• Estate of Reeves
• Estate of Will
• Vernoff v. Astrue
• Brown v. LaBow
• Cabral v. Soares
• Estate of Shellenbarger
• Masry v. Masry
• In re Neuton
• Estate of Williams
• Dorn v. Solomon
• Estate of Ivey