Wills, Trusts, and Estates, Eighth Edition
Retaining the late Jesse Dukeminier’s signature blend of wit, erudition, insight, and playfulness, Wills, Trusts, and Estates, now in its Eighth Edition, continues to offer interesting cases, well written notes, and a logical organization.
The Eight Edition’s new Companion Website, available with adoptions, includes an electronic version of the Teacher’s Manual, PowerPoint slides on selected topics, and author updates.
A stellar example of a great casebook, Wills, Trusts, and Estates features:
- 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
With many new and revised notes, questions, and problems, the carefully updated Eighth Edition explores:
- 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
Co-authors Robert Sitkoff and James Lindgren took great care to preserve the voice and spirit of Jesse Dukeminier, while fulfilling the trust and expectation among users for timely and relevant coverage, cases, and note material.
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Medicaid Financial Eligibility Rules for Nursing Home Care in New York State
This reference guide was written to help people gain quick access to the rules which determine whether Medicaid will pay for someone’s nursing home care. It focuses specifically on the financial eligibility rules for New Yorkers who are 65 and older. Topics include: spouse’s responsibility; resource levels; exempt resources; resources which receive special treatment; gifting and penalty periods; exempt transfers; and trusts. It contains extensive citations to: NY statutes; NY Codes, Rules & Regulations; Administrative Directives; Informational Letters; GIS Messages; and the newly-repaginated Medicaid Reference Guide.
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How to Protect Your Family’s Assets from Devastating Nursing Home Costs: Medicaid Secrets (5th edition)
Written by an elder law attorney with over 25 years of experience, this book will help anyone with a family member faced with a long-term stay in a nursing home who wishes to preserve at least some of their assets by qualifying for the Medicaid program. You don’t have to be broke to qualify! For the first time ever, the inside secrets of high-priced estate planning and elder law attorneys are revealed. Includes a summary of all income and asset rules for both married and single individuals, together with numerous examples and several case studies, which take the reader through the same thought processes that an experienced elder law attorney would go through when analyzing a real-life client’s situation. The book includes tips on: how to title your home so you do not lose it to the state; how to make transfers to family members that won’t disqualify you from Medicaid; how annuities make assets “disappear”; smart tricks for “spending down” your assets; what to change in your will to save thousands of dollars if your spouse ever needs nursing home care; avoiding the state’s reimbursement claim following the nursing home resident’s death; and much more. The 2011 Fifth Edition has been expanded, revised, and completely updated to incorporate all changes in the law as of January 1, 2011, and includes two chapters on Veterans’ benefits.
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