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Wills, Trusts, and Estates, Twelfth Edition

Authors
  • Robert H. Sitkoff
  • Jesse Dukeminier
Series / Aspen Casebook Series
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Table of contents

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Widely hailed as one of the best casebooks in legal education, this comprehensive text combines interesting cases, thoughtful analysis, notes, images, and a clear organization for an excellent teaching tool. Cartoons, illustrations, case documents, and photographs provide useful visual commentary. Sidebars on relevant persons, places, and things provide interesting and sometimes humorous context. A comprehensive Teacher’s Manual provides a complete teaching summary of all materials in the book, and comprehensive PowerPoint slides provide helpful structure for classroom organization.

New to the Twelfth Edition: 
  • Updated treatment of electronic or digital wills, with:
    • a completely revised section on video wills to reflect new case law developments, and
    • attention to law reform to facilitate electronic versions of other estate planning documents
  • Updated and extensively revised coverage of revocable trusts, with attention to new case law developments, especially in the revocation of such a trust
  • Updated and extensively revised treatment of lapse and conditions of survivorship to reflect new case law developments
  • Updated and extensively revised coverage of the principal and income problem, in particular concerning new case law on the power to adjust
  • Attention across topics to ongoing law reform efforts on conflicts of laws in trusts and estates
  • Updated coverage of wealth and income inequality and continuing proposals for a wealth tax
Professors and students will benefit from: 
  • Unique blend of wit, erudition, insight, and playfulness retained from the late Jesse Dukeminier
  • Organization that covers all the key topics in a logical, clear format, including a completely revised section on video wills and attention to reform to facilitate electronic versions of estate planning
  • A visually arresting two-color design
  • Interesting cases that are not only fun to read, but fun to teach
  • Cases enhanced and connected to broader legal principles by well-written notes, questions, problems, and sidebars
  • Cartoons, illustrations, wills and other case documents, and photographs that provide visual commentary and teaching aids

 

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    Table of Contents
    SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

    Contents 
    List of Illustrations 
    Preface 
    Acknowledgments


    Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION: FREEDOM OF DISPOSITION 
    Chapter 2 INTESTACY: AN ESTATE PLAN BY DEFAULT
    Chapter 3 WILLS: FORMALITIES AND FORMS 
    Chapter 4 WILLS: CAPACITY AND CONTESTS 
    Chapter 5 WILLS: CONSTRUCTION 
    Chapter 6 TRUSTS: CHARACTERISTICS AND CREATION 
    Chapter 7 NONPROBATE TRANSFERS AND PLANNING FOR
    INCAPACITY 
    Chapter 8 LIMITS ON FREEDOM OF DISPOSITION: PROTECTION
    OF THE SPOUSE AND CHILDREN 
    Chapter 9 TRUSTS: FIDUCIARY ADMINISTRATION 
    Chapter 10 TRUSTS: ALIENATION AND MODIFICATION 
    Chapter 11 TRUSTS: CHARITABLE PURPOSES, CY PRES, AND
    SUPERVISION 
    Chapter 12 TRUSTS: POWERS OF APPOINTMENT 
    Chapter 13 TRUSTS: CONSTRUCTION AND FUTURE INTERESTS 
    Chapter 14 THE RULE AGAINST PERPETUITIES AND TRUST
    DURATION 
    Chapter 15 WEALTH TRANSFER TAXATION 

    Table of Cases
    Author Index 
    Index
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    About the authors
    Robert H. Sitkoff
    Professor
    Harvard University

    Robert H. Sitkoff is the Austin Wakeman Scott Professor of Law and the John L. Gray Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He was the youngest professor with tenure to receive a chair in the history of the school, and he is the only current member of the faculty to hold two chairs within the law school. He has won several teaching awards. Sitkoff’s research focuses on economic and empirical analysis of trusts, estates, and fiduciary administration. His work has been published in leading scholarly journals such as the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, and the Journal of Law and Economics, and he is a coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law (2019).

    A Uniform Law Commissioner from Massachusetts, Sitkoff is the Chair for the drafting committee for an Act on Conflict of Trust and Estate Laws, is a liaison member of the Joint Editorial Board for Uniform Trust and Estate Acts, and was the Chair for the drafting committee for the Uniform Directed Trust Act (2017). He is also a member of the Council of the American Law Institute. Sitkoff serves as an advisory consultant and expert witness in litigation and regulatory matters involving wills, trusts, estates, and fiduciary administration. He has also led training workshops for trust officers and other professional fiduciaries. Sitkoff edits the Wills, Trusts, and Estates abstracting journal in the Social Science Research Network and is an academic fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.

    Product Information
    Edition
    Twelfth Edition
    Publication date
    2025-11-03
    Copyright Year
    2026
    Pages
    1040
    Connected eBook with Study Center + Hardcover
    9798892075107
    Connected eBook with Study Center (Digital Only)
    9798892075114
    Subject
    Wills, Trusts, and Estates
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