Overview

Both a popular and award-winning professor and a well-respected partner at Minden Gross, Howard Black has now authored Wills and Estates: Cases, Text, and Materials. Students will appreciate the thoughtful explanation of difficult concepts as this text includes an unusually large component of analysis for a casebook of its type. The author’s insights on many topics of significance reflect his serious scholarship, his understanding of theory, and his practical perspective gained by advising clients and litigating in this area.

Top ∧Content Summary

• Terminology
• Intestate Succession
• The Will
• Will Substitutes
• Capacity to Make a Will
• Formal Validity of Wills
• Testamentary Gifts
• Class Gifts and Gifts Nominatum
• Doctrines and Limits on the Power of Testation
• Status of Beneficiaries
• Survivorship
• The Rule Against Perpetuities
• The Rule Against Accumulations
• Revocation, Alteration and Revival of Wills
• Incapable Persons and the Substitute Decisions Act
• Administration of an Estate
• Proof of Death
• Proof of Lost Wills
• Estate Accounts, Compensation for Estate Trustees and Solicitors’ Fees
• Family Law Act Considerations
• Support of Dependants
• Solicitors’ Duties and Responsibilities
• Estates Disputes and Alternative Dispute Resolution