A California Companion for the Course in Wills, Trusts, and Estates, 2015 - 2016
Book Details
Author(s)Susan F. French
PublisherWolters Kluwer Law & Business
ISBN / ASIN1454870303
ISBN-139781454870302
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CategoryPaperback
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Description
A CALIFORNIA COMPANION includes all of the statutes required for the California Bar Exam plus selected additional statutes covering:Wills, no-contest clauses Adopted, step, and non-marital children Posthumously conceived children Disqualified transferees Financial elder abuse Non-probate transfers Powers of appointment Trustee s duty to inform and account Rights of creditors to reach trust assets Time limits for filing wills and claims to estate property Inheritance by, from, and through adopted and non-marital children Equitable adoption Inheritance by children conceived after death of parent Execution and revocation of formal and holographic wills Validity of no-contest clauses Standing to claim elder abuse and limits on remedy Disqualified transferees Tests for mental capacity Undue influence Attorney liability to intended beneficiaries for malpractice Tort of intentional interference with expected inheritance Trust revocation Severance of joint tenancy Rights of creditors in trust assets Rights of beneficiaries to trust accounting Remainder beneficiaries standing to sue trustee of revocable trust Bounds v. Superior Court Marriage of Greenway Burnham v. Calif. Pub. Emp. Ret. System McMackin v. Ehrheart Donkin v. Donkin Sefton v. Sefton (II) Estate of Trikha Siegel v. Fife Frealy v. Reynolds Straley v. Gamble Graham-Sult v. Clainos Ukkestad v. RBS Asset Finance, Inc. Jenkins v. Teegarden Vance v. Bizek Lintz v. Lintz
Intestate succession
A CALIFORNIA COMPANION features forty-seven principal California cases and fifty-seven note cases determining:
New in the 2015 2016 Edition:
Statutory changes
- All statutes updated to May 29, 2015
- Bills introduced in 2015-2016 legislative session
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