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Wills, Trusts, and Estates, Eighth Edition

• Emanuel Law Outlines: Wills, Trusts, and Estates, Keyed to Dukeminier's 8th Edition (The Emanuel Law Outlines Series)
• Casenote Legal Briefs Wills, Trusts and Estates: Keyed to Dukeminier, Sitkoff and Lindgren, 8e
• Wills, Trusts and Estates Examples & Explanations, 4e
• Uniform Trust and Estate Statutes, 2011-2012
• Constitutional Law
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• eminently clear presentation of topics
• comprehensive substantive coverage
• inspired case selection
• engaging notes, questions, and problems that connect and highlight legal themes and principles
• humorous and illustrative cartoons, art, photographs, and other images

• New developments in law reform by the ALI and NCCUSL, such as:
  • the 2008 Amendments to the Uniform Probate Code, including validation of notarized wills, reformation of wills for mistake, and a reworking of the spousal share
  • the Uniform Power of Attorney Act
  • further progress in the Restatement (Third) of Trusts and Restatement (Third) of Property
• Ongoing developments in the law, in such areas as:
  • inheritance rights for same-sex partners
  • the posthumous right of publicity
  • the power of an agent to alter an incompetent principal's estate plan
  • liberalized rules of trust modification and termination, and of trustee removal
  • standing for donors in suits against the trustees of charitable trusts
  • perpetual trusts and self-settled asset protection trusts
• Increasingly important topics such as:
  • the movement to cure will execution defects and reform mistakes in wills
  • fiduciary administration and trust investment law
  • will contests, particularly the law of capacity and insane delusion