Selected Statutes on Trusts and Estates

This casebook statutory supplement meets the needs of students in basic and advanced courses on wills, trusts, decedents' estates, fiduciary administration, and future interests, providing a compendium of essential uniform act provisions and official comments. It covers a wide range of topics, including intestacy, wills, rules of construction, probate administration, nonprobate transfers, disclaimers, principal and income, prudent investments, perpetuities, trust formation and modification, spendthrift and discretionary trusts, trustee powers and duties, and powers of attorney. The previous edition has been updated to include the newly-promulgated Uniform Powers of Appointment Act and related technical amendments to the Uniform Probate Code.