This popular study guide helps students master the complexities of wills, trusts, and estates through a combination of textual material and well-written, comprehensive examples, explanations, and questions. <b>Examples & Explanations: Wills, Trusts, and Estates, Fourth Edition,</b> provides students with the essential background and review materials they need to practice applying legal concepts to fact patterns. <p class="copymedium"> <b>Among the features that make this high-quality study guide popular with both students and instructors:</b> </p> <ul> <li class="copymedium"> comprehensive coverage — the text covers intestacy, wills, and trusts, including nonprobate assets, estate administration, wealth transfer taxation (gift tax, estate tax, generation-skipping transfer tax), disability and death planning, and malpractice/professional responsibility </li> <li class="copymedium"> a conversational writing style that is clear, accessible, and holds students¿ interest </li> <li class="copymedium"> uses the <i>Examples & Explanations</i> format to help students learn in a step-by-step manner and also includes comprehensive questions, with a variety of issues in one fact situation, that are similar to those on law school and bar examinations </li> <li class="copymedium"> casebook correlation charts that make it easy to use the study guide with any of the seven most popular casebooks </li> <li class="copymedium"> a "learning by doing" approach that provides students with the opportunity to evaluate how well they can apply what they have just learned </li> <li class="copymedium"> practical suggestions throughout the text that enhance its pedagogical value and give students an appreciation of the how the concepts apply in the real world </li> <li class="copymedium"> samples of will and trust provisions and an extensively annotated model will </li> <li class="copymedium"> an overview of general nationwide rules </li> <li class="copymedium"> a comprehensive, student-friendly index that allows students to easily find the information they seek </li> <li class="copymedium"> tables for quick location of material relevant to the Uniform Probate Code, Uniform Trust Code, and Internal Revenue Code </li> <li class="copymedium"> updates available on author's website: <a href="http://www.professorbeyer.com/" target="_blank"> www.ProfessorBeyer.com</a> </li> </ul> <p class="copymedium"> <b>Fine-tuned and updated, the Fourth Edition offers:</b> </p> <ul> <li class="copymedium"> materials on recent developments, including: transfer of death deeds; self-settled spendthrift trusts; Rule Against Perpetuities reform; federal gift, estate, and generation-skipping transfer tax; Uniform Trust Code; rights of same-sex partners; Medicaid planning; physician-assisted suicide </li> <li class="copymedium"> revised examples that reflect the updated content </li> <li class="copymedium"> updated casebook correlation tables reflecting new editions of the major casebooks </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p> </p>
Professor Gerry W. Beyer received his J.D., summa cum laude, from the Ohio State University and his LL.M. and J.S.D. degrees from the University of Illinois. Both his master's thesis and doctoral dissertation topics involved estate planning issues. Professor Beyer joined the faculty of the Texas Tech University School of Law in June 2005 as the Governor Preston E. Smith Regents Professor of Law. Previously, Prof. Beyer taught at the St. Mary's University School of Law from 1981 to May 2005 and has served as a visiting professor at several other law schools including Boston College, Southern Methodist University, the University of New Mexico, Santa Clara University, and La Trobe University (Australia). A member of the Order of the Coif and the recipient of many outstanding and distinguished faculty awards, Professor Beyer specializes in estate planning and teaches courses such as Wills and Estates, Trusts, and Estate Planning.
Prof. Beyer is a frequent contributor to both scholarly and practice-orientated publications and has authored and co-authored numerous books and articles focusing on various aspects of estate planning, including a two volume treatise on Texas wills law and a nationally marketed estate planning casebook published by the West, a Thomson business. In 1993, he received the Probate & Property Excellence in Writing Award for Best Cutting Edge Article for Probate and Trust as well as the 2001 Probate & Property Excellence in Writing Award for Best Overall Article in Probate and Trust. He has been the Keeping Current Probate editor for Probate & Property magazine since 1992. Professor Beyer is an Academic Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and maintains membership in the American Bar Foundation, the Texas Bar Foundation, and the College of the State Bar of Texas.
