Contemporary Trusts and Estates: Edition 3

Susan N. Gary · Jerome Borison · Naomi R. Cahn · Paula A. Monopoli

Oct 2016 · Aspen Publishing

About this ebook

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The third edition of Contemporary Trusts and Estates captures the rapid evolution of doctrine in trusts and estates law that has occurred over the past half-century in response to profound societal and demographic changes. Based on recent developments in legal education, this casebook integrates legal analysis, judgment and perspective, ethics, and practice skills. It focuses simultaneously on the theoretical foundations and practical applications of the material, teaching students by using traditional case analysis and, at the professor’s option, innovative exercises.

Features:

Newly designed, with Wills now presented before Trusts New problems, exercises and cases ¿ Post-Obergefell v. Hodges developments for same-sex families More material on decanting and the new Uniform Trust Decanting Act Inclusion of the Uniform Powers of Appointment Act Discussion of planning for digital assets Incorporation of 2016 ACTEC Commentary on the Model Rules

About the author

Paula A. Monopoli is the Sol & Carlyn Hubert Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law, where she founded its Women, Leadership & Equality Program. She holds an appointment as a Visiting Scholar at the Moller Centre, Churchill College, University of Cambridge. Professor Monopoli received her B.A, cum laude, from Yale College, and her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. She teaches in the areas of property and inheritance law, as well as gender and the law. Professor Monopoli has been widely recognized for her work in the fields of inheritance law and the intersection of gender and constitutional design.