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Wills and Trusts in a Nutshell (Nutshell Series)
enlarge	Authors: Robert L. Mennell, Sheri L. Burr Publisher: Thomson West Category: Book List Price: ~~$31.00~~ Buy New: $27.90 as of 3/21/2010 17:41 PDT details You Save: $3.10 (10%) New (11) Used (12) from $25.77 Seller: Amazon.com Media: Paperback Edition: 3 Pages: 383 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6 Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 4.9 x 0.7 ISBN: 0314180133 Dewey Decimal Number: 346 EAN: 9780314180131 ASIN: 0314180133 Publication Date: October 29, 2007 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours


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Editorial Reviews: Product Description This third edition provides a comprehensive review of the law affecting intestate succession, wills, and trusts. This book introduces wills terminology to the lay audience and updates the law of trusts with references to the Uniform Trust Code and the Restatement of Trusts. This book uses problems arising from celebrity peccadilloes and deaths, such as those of Anna Nichole Smith and James Brown, to illustrate legal issues. Moreover, this book can be adopted to supplement a traditional wills and trust class or as the sole text for a seminar.

Customer Reviews: Good Nutshell November 23, 2009 Edward J. Barton (Mill Creek, WA) One of the better written Nutshells. There is a combination of good examples, black letter law, case analysis and quizzes to test comprehension and learning. The authors do a good job of making a complex topic approachable and understandable, and identify a number of common pitfalls and likely exam topics. While I read the 2nd edition, a newer edition is available and would be recommended to the practitioner. Great supplement to textbook October 13, 2009 Lina Gomes (Boston, MA) Especially since this is a bar course I found the use of this nutshell helpful for Trusts & Estates. The issues reviewed in detail include intestacy, rights of the spouse and children, the statute of wills, revoking and changing wills, beneficiaries, changes in items bequeathed, creation of trusts, elements of a trust, trustee powers and duties, and trust administration problems. In less detail the nutshell also goes over interpretation of the terms of a will and probate administration. It was a good overview although the other nutshells "Introduction to Estate Planning" and "Estates and Future Interests" included other information that we went over in class but that this particular nutshell did not include. Definitely recommend this supplement to your reading! YUCK September 26, 2009 law student Book was great but I wish you would have warned me that it came from a smoker's home because I got the book a week ago and still have it outside fanned out trying to get the smoke out of the book. I can't even use it yet because it is so smelly. Other than that the book was great and super fast shipping. Great amazon purchase I just wish I would have known about the smoke. THANK YOU Not very useful for exam review May 1, 2005 Jamille2 2 out of 3 found this review helpful As acknowledged in the preface, "this book alone will not present an integrated coverage of the subject." It just focuses on a few areas and delves into them in great detail, without really providing any sort of overview or anything to help you complete the whole picture. Not the book to go to if you are expexting a comprehensive overview of wills and trusts. I was very disappointed with this nutshell, because isn't that what a nutshell is supposed to be? I would recommend trying to see if another line, such as Examples and Explanations, has a book on the area. Recommended for both law students and paralegal students. November 7, 2003 Mark Hammond (Chambersburg, PA USA) 3 out of 4 found this review helpful I liked this book when I was in law school. It "cut to the chase" and made the concepts of wills and trusts understandable. Although wills and trusts are separate courses in law school, I found the book has value for both courses by making difficult concepts understandable. Now that I am an instructor teaching wills and trusts for paralegals at a local college, I find the book valuable. I must admit that I made the mistake of lending it to a student. She won't give it back! She likes it better than the textbook we are using. That in and of itself is a strong statement of endorsement for this "Nutshell" title.

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