Sterk and Leslie's Estates and Trusts, Cases and Materials, 6th
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The Sixth Edition of Sterk and Leslie’s Estates and Trusts modernizes a classic book to reflect important changes in the field. The new edition includes:
- Expanded discussion of trust decanting and directed trusts, including excerpts from the new Uniform Trust Decanting Act and Uniform Directed Trusts Act
- Eleven new principal cases decided since 2015, including:
- Estate of Prince (applying the presumption of paternity to reject claims by persons claiming to be blood relatives of the renowned singer)
- Aoki v. Aoki (upholding releases of powers of appointment in the estate plan of the founder of the Benihana restaurant chain)
- Minnesota Life v. Rings (reconciling simultaneous death statutes with language in a beneficiary designation form)
- Trust of Shire (construing the trust modification provisions of the UTC)
- Pikula v. Department of Social Services (upholding a discretionary trust as a supplemental needs trust
- A completely rewritten—and brief—introduction to the federal estate tax, reflecting the current provisions of the code