This comprehensive guide provides an overview of the rules and principles of estates and future interests, including concurrent estates, marital estates (including the modern elective share), and powers of appointment. It includes new innovations from the Restatement 3d of Property, modernizing the law of future interests and dramatically changing the Rule Against Perpetuities. The book also has exercises, with answers at the back. Valuable for students in first-year Property and upper-year courses in trusts and estates.
This comprehensive guide provides an overview of the rules and principles of estates and future interests, including concurrent estates, marital estates (including the modern elective share), and powers of appointment.
Importance and Process of Classification; Possessory Estates; Reversionary Future Interests: Reversions, Possibilities of Reverter and Rights of Entry; Nonreversionary Future Interests: Remainders and Executory Interests; Future Interests Differentiated in Terms...
The carefully crafted problems in this popular workbook have proven their effectiveness in helping students learn the rules and classifications in this intricate area of the law. The book remains...
Designed as an introductory coursebook for key areas of law, the Foundation Press University Textbook Series offers law students comprehensive scholarship of leading experts to deepen their knowledge and aid...
"A student's guide to understanding estates in land and future interests."--Cover.
Estates in Land and Future Interests: Problems and Answers provides aclear and systematic presentation of the rules and classifications of estatelaw. Problem sets in each chapter let students practice applying...
This Nutshell presents an introduction to estate planning. Subjects covered include the transfer of property at death at will under the intestate law, survivor interests, community property, and "simple" wills....
The Estate and Estate Planning; Transfer of Property at Death by Will and Under Intestate Law; Survivorship Interests; Community Property; "Simple" Wills; Insurance; The Estate Arising From Status: Social Security;...
Intestacy; Status and Bars to Succession; Limits on the Power of Disposition; Formal Requirements for Transfer; Revocation; Extrinsic Evidence; Incapacity and Undue Influence; Trusts, Alternates to the Trust; Changes After...
Blending black letter law and theory in Professor Wright's witty and entertaining style, this book will prove a valuable reference work for decades to come.