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. Examples & Explanations: Wills, Trusts, and Estates, Fourth Edition, provides students with the essential background and review materials they need to practice applying legal concepts to fact patterns. Among the features that make this high-quality study guide popular with both students and instructors: 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 a conversational writing style that is clear, accessible, and holds students¿ interest uses the Examples & Explanations 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 casebook correlation charts that make it easy to use the study guide with any of the seven most popular casebooks a "learning by doing" approach that provides students with the opportunity to evaluate how well they can apply what they have just learned 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 samples of will and trust provisions and an extensively annotated model will an overview of general nationwide rules a comprehensive, student-friendly index that allows students to easily find the information they seek tables for quick location of material relevant to the Uniform Probate Code, Uniform Trust Code, and Internal Revenue Code updates available on author's website: www.ProfessorBeyer.com Fine-tuned and updated, the Fourth Edition offers: 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 revised examples that reflect the updated content updated casebook correlation tables reflecting new editions of the major casebooks