Original PDF Ebook – Wills, Trusts, and Estates for Legal Assistants6th Edition – 9781543813081

Original PDF Ebook – Wills, Trusts, and Estates for Legal Assistants6th Edition – 9781543813081

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._x000D_
New to the Sixth Edition:_x000D_
The impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on federal income, gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer taxes_x000D_
Rights and liabilities of same-sex spouses_x000D_
Electronic wills and access to a decedent’s digital assets_x000D_
Techniques for demonstrating testamentary capacity_x000D_
Directed trusts and trusts authorizing trustees to consider environmental, social, and governance factors in making investment decisions_x000D_
Modifying the terms of an irrevocable trust by “decanting”_x000D_
Professors and students will benefit from:_x000D_
lively, lucid, and conversational style grabs and holds students’ interest_x000D_
learning-by-doing approach gives students a concrete grasp of abstract concepts_x000D_
Practice Tips guide students through the critical process of preparing and managing files_x000D_
flexible structure allows professors to follow the presentation of concepts in the book or organize the chapters to fit their syllabus