Examples & Explanations for Wills, Trusts, and Estates, Ninth Edition

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Gerry W Beyer

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816 pages

Publication Date

2026-10-09

Edition

Ninth Edition

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A favorite classroom prep tool of successful students that is often recommended by professors, the Examples & Explanations (E&E) series provides an alternative perspective to help you understand your casebook and in-class lectures. Each E&E offers hypothetical questions complemented by detailed explanations that allow you to test your knowledge of the topics in your courses and compare your own analysis.

Here's why you need an E&E to help you study throughout the semester:

Clear explanations of each class topic, in a conversational, funny style.
Features hypotheticals similar to those presented in class, with corresponding analysis so you can use them during the semester to test your understanding, and again at exam time to help you review.
It offers coverage that works with ALL the major casebooks, and suits any class on a given topic.
The Examples & Explanations series has been ranked the most popular study aid among law students because it is equally as helpful from the first day of class through the final exam.

New to the Ninth Edition:

Discussions around electronic wills, electronic signatures and notarization, and other components of estate planning following the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Expanded to reflect the latest percentages and exemption amounts for gift, estate, and generation-skipping tax.
Revision of content and standards from the Uniform Probate Code, Uniform Trust Code, and other uniform laws to reflect recent changes and amendments.
Coverage of developments in physician-assisted suicide.
Updated casebook correlation tables reflect new editions of the major casebooks.

Table of Contents

SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Correlation Table: Ascher/McCouch,
Cases and Materials on Gratuitous Transfers (8th ed. 2026)
Correlation Table: Bogert/Oaks/Hansen/Neeleman,
Cases and Text on the Law of Trust (9th ed. 2012)
Correlation Table: Sterk/Leslie,
Estates and Trusts: Cases and Materials (7th ed. 2024)
Correlation Table: Brophy/Gordon/Sneddon/Spivack/Tait,
Experiencing Trusts and Estates (2nd ed. 2021)
Correlation Table: Sitkoff/Dukeminier,
Wills, Trusts, and Estates (12th ed. 2025)
Correlation Table: O’Brien,
Decedents’ Estates: Cases and Materials (5th ed. 2025)
Correlation Table: Scoles/Halbach/Roberts/Begleiter,
Problems and Materials on Decedents’ Estates and Trusts (7th ed. 2006)
Correlation Table: Vollmar/Hess/Whitman,
An Introduction to Trusts and Estates (2003)
Correlation Table: Gallanis,
Family Property Law (9th ed. 2024)
Correlation Table: Gary/Borison/Cahn/Monopoli,
Contemporary Trusts and Estates (4th ed. 2022)
Correlation Table: Wright/Higdon/Crawford,
Wills, Trusts, and Estates: An Integrated Approach (2021)
Correlation Table: Andersen/Bloom,
Fundamentals of Trusts and Estates (6th ed. 2022)

Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview
PART I. INTESTATE SUCCESSION
Chapter 2 Descent and Distribution
Chapter 3 Treatment of Certain Categories of Potential Heirs
Chapter 4 Other Intestate Succession Issues
PART II. WILLS
Chapter 5 Requirements for a Valid Will
Chapter 6 Changing Circumstances After Will Execution — Property
Chapter 7 Changing Circumstances After Will Execution — Persons
Chapter 8 Revocation of Wills
Chapter 9 Interpretation and Construction
Chapter 10 Will Contests
Chapter 11 Other Will Issues
PART III. ESTATE ADMINISTRATION
Chapter 12 Estate Administration
PART IV. NONPROBATE TRANSFERS
Chapter 13 Reasons People Use Nonprobate Transfers
Chapter 14 Inter Vivos Transfers
Chapter 15 Co- ownership of Property
Chapter 16 Multiple- Party Accounts
Chapter 17 Contracts
PART V. TRUSTS
Chapter 18 Introduction to Trusts
Chapter 19 Trust Creation
Chapter 20 Trust Administration
Chapter 21 Trust Enforcement
Chapter 22 Resulting Trusts
Chapter 23 Constructive Trusts
PART VI. OTHER ESTATE PLANNING CONCERNS
Chapter 24 Wealth Transfer Taxation
Chapter 25 Disability and Death Planning
Chapter 26 Malpractice and Professional Responsibility

Comprehensive Examples and Explanations
Sample Will with Testamentary Trust Form
Sample Last Will Form
Bibliography
Table of Uniform Probate Code (UPC) Provisions
Table of Uniform Trust Code (UTC) Provisions
Table of Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Provisions
Index

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About the authors

Gerry W. Beyer

Governor Preston E. Smith Regents Professor of Law

Texas Tech University School of Law

Professor Gerry W. Beyer received his J.D., summa cum laude, from the Ohio State University and his LL.M. and J.S.D. degrees from the University of Illinois. Both his master's thesis and doctoral dissertation topics involved estate planning issues. Professor Beyer joined the faculty of the Texas Tech University School of Law in June 2005 as the Governor Preston E. Smith Regents Professor of Law. Previously, Prof. Beyer taught at the St. Mary's University School of Law from 1981 to May 2005 and has served as a visiting professor at several other law schools, including Boston College, Southern Methodist University, the University of New Mexico, and Santa Clara University. A member of the Order of the Coif and the recipient of many outstanding and distinguished faculty awards, Professor Beyer specializes in estate planning and teaches courses such as Wills and Estates, Trusts, and Estate Planning.

Prof. Beyer is a frequent contributor to both scholarly and practice-oriented publications and has authored and co-authored numerous books and articles focusing on various aspects of estate planning, including a two-volume treatise on Texas wills law and a nationally marketed estate planning casebook. In 1993, he received the Probate & Property Excellence in Writing Award for Best Cutting Edge Article for Probate and Trust as well as the 2001 Probate & Property Excellence in Writing Award for Best Overall Article in Probate and Trust. He has been the Keeping Current Probate editor for Probate & Property magazine since 1992. Professor Beyer is an Academic Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and maintains membership in the American Bar Foundation, the Texas Bar Foundation, and the College of the State Bar of Texas.

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Ninth Edition

Publication date

2026-10-09

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2026

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816

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