6th Edition
by Gerry W. Beyer (Author), John K. Hanft (Author)
Using an effective learn by doing approach, Wills, Trusts, and Estates for Legal Assistants
emphasizes examples and applications, and includes hundreds of real
life situations with detailed explanations. Students understand what the
rules of law mean and how they apply in a real world context. The
complete topic coverage introduces wills and trusts, intestate
succession, estate administration, nonprobate transfers, and other
estate planning issues such as taxes and malpractice. A balanced,
experienced author team skillfully blends theory with practice and
extensive pedagogy reinforces the text, with marginal terms and a
glossary, ethical points, checklists, practice tips, and sample forms.
The instructor's manual provides a summary of chapters, a model course
outline, exam questions, assignment ideas, exercises, and a research
guide for wills, trusts, and estates.
New to the Sixth Edition:
- The impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on federal income, gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer taxes
- Rights and liabilities of same-sex spouses
- Electronic wills and access to a decedent s digital assets
- Techniques for demonstrating testamentary capacity
- Directed
trusts and trusts authorizing trustees to consider environmental,
social, and governance factors in making investment decisions
- Modifying the terms of an irrevocable trust by decanting
Professors and students will benefit from:
- lively, lucid, and conversational style grabs and holds students interest
- learning-by-doing approach gives students a concrete grasp of abstract concepts
- Practice Tips guide students through the critical process of preparing and managing files
- flexible
structure allows professors to follow the presentation of concepts in
the book or organize the chapters to fit their syllabus
