Table of Contents:
  • Glossary
  • Introduction to property transfers at death
  • Intestacy
  • Will execution formalities and contest
  • Revocation
  • Will contracts
  • Will substitutes
  • Interpretation: what the decedent intended
  • Construction: lapse and class gifts
  • Construction: ademption, abatement, accessions, and exoneration
  • Restrictions on disinheritance: pretermission, elective shares, and community property
  • Introduction to trusts
  • Trust creation
  • Trust operation
  • Powers of appointment
  • Future interests
  • Planning for incapacity
  • Rule against perpetuities
  • Fiduciary administration.