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A California Companion for the Course in Wills, Trusts, and Estates 2023-2024

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  • Susan F. French
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420 pages
Publication Date
2023-07-21
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A CALIFORNIA COMPANION is for professors teaching students who may take the California Bar Exam. California law is different from the Uniform Probate Code and the “national” law presented in casebooks. Inheritance rights of parents and children in adoption and nonmarital situations, disqualified transferees, consequences of financial elder abuse, rights of creditors in trust assets, extension of wills rules to nonprobate transfers, rights of trust beneficiaries to information, and special time limits on bringing various claims are some of the areas in which California has distinct rules. The Companion includes all the statutes required for the California Bar Exam, as well as California cases and statutes that give context to the bar statutes, reflect recent legislative changes, or illustrate areas where California law is different from “national” law.

A CALIFORNIA COMPANION is designed for ease of use. Bar statutes are clearly marked and all statutes have been given captions more informative than those in the code books. Principal cases are severely edited for easy classroom use. The detailed Table of Contents lists all included statutes with identifying captions, and all principal cases preceded by a short description identifying the subject matter. The table of cases lists the 52 principal cases and 136 note cases. The Table of Statutes groups statutes into Bar Statutes, other sections of the Probate Code, sections of the Family Code, the Civil Code, the Code of Civil Procedure, and the Welfare and Institutions Code. The Companion also includes Instructions for the California Exam that list the Bar Statutes that may be covered.

Organization of A California Companion tracks Dukeminier & Sitkoff, Wills, Trusts & Estates (11th ed. 2022), but it can easily be used with other casebooks because the Table of Contents clearly shows the subject matter of each section.

New to the 2023-2024 Edition:

  • All statutes updated to March 1, 2023
  • Bills introduced in the 2023-2024 legislative session
  • Ring v. Harmon, which held that a personal representative and beneficiary of an estate had standing to sue for financial elder abuse in her individual capacity as beneficiary rather than in her capacity as personal representative
  • Fourteen new note cases
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About the authors
Susan French
Professor of Law Emerita
UCLA School of Law

Susan French teaches Property, Wills and Trusts, and Common Interest Communities. Her areas of expertise include the law of wills, trusts, future interests, servitudes (easements and covenants), and common interest communities. After graduating from law school where she was articles editor of the Washington Law Review, Professor French practiced law in Seattle, Washington, and then joined the UC Davis law faculty in 1975. She was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School in 1980, the UCLA School of Law in 1988-89, Harvard Law School in 1990, Duke Law School in 2001 and 2007, and the University of North Carolina in 2005. She spent a sabbatical year at the University of Chile in Santiago during 1982-83 and part of a sabbatical leave at the University of Sydney Faculty of Law in 2002.

Professor French was the Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law, Third, Property (Servitudes) (2000). She serves as an adviser to the Restatement of the Law, Third, Property (Donative Transfers), and she has advised the California Law Revision Commission on the revision of laws relating to common-interest developments and the Probate Code. She is co-author of Cases and Texts on Property (with Casner, et al., 6th ed. 2015), and Community Association Law (with Hyatt, 2d ed. 2008). Professor French is also the author of A California Companion for the Course in Wills, Trusts and Estates.
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Publication date
2023-07-21
Pages
420
Paperback
9798889062066
Subject
Wills, Trusts, and Estates
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