Administration of Wills, Trusts, and Estates

Administration of Wills, Trusts, and Estates, fourth edition, has proven to be a highly successful reference for users, marrying dense content with a reader friendly style that utilizes extensive examples. The use of celebrity wills and estates as illustrations provides access for readers into complicated legal topics. Legal vocabulary is defined immediately for students. This new edition has more case studies so that users become more familiar with the legal process and have real examples of how legal concepts are applied by courts. The narrative material is national in scope, with charts and graphs that focus on state-by-state information. It balances narrative material and visual presentations to accommodate a variety of reader learning styles. Readers have extensive and varied practice materials at the end of each chapter so that the book material can be re-enforced and expanded. The material in this revision has also been updated to include the current state of the law.