Contemporary Approaches to Trusts and Estates 2E

"Contemporary Trusts and Estates: An Experiential Approach" uses cases and statutory materials along with exercises and problems to integrate legal analysis and practice skills. The book can be used in a three- or four-credit course with or without the exercises, and sample syllabi are included in the Teacher's Manual. Features: •Proceeds chronologically, covering lifetime planning issues before wills. •Uses extensive textual explanations to present the law and its many nuances. •Consistent with the call in the Carnegie Report for schools to add more practice skills to the curriculum, includes exercises in document drafting, role-playing, and letter writing to clients. •Reproduces statutory materials on the Restatement, so that no separate supplement is required. •Includes new and revised sections on Will Contests, Trust, Protectors, and Planning for Digital Assets. •Explores the ethical obligations of estate planning lawyers using the MRPC and the ACTEC Commentaries. •Presents contemporary cases, such as the Astrue case and its impact on posthumously conceived children. •Included fact-based problems, requiring students to explore cases, the UPC, the UTC, and other statutes, as well as the MRPC, in depth.