Wills
Subtitle: core concepts and key questions
By: Robert S. Feinberg, editorial consultant ; reviewed by: Evan Slavitt
Series: Kaplan PMBR finals
Publisher: Kaplan Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9781427796479
Subjects: Wills; Outlines, syllabi; Examinations, questions
Other titles: Finals wills
Notes: Above title: Finals.
Table of contents: title: I. Capacity, intent to make a will, and mistake. Description of will and codicil ; Competency ; Undue influence ; Fraud ; Interested witnesses ; Intent necessary to make a will; title: II. Will formalities and composition. Formalities required for a will or codicil ; Documents compromising the will ; Future interests and language used in wills; title: III. Revocation and revival; title: IV. Distribution of the testator's estate. Classification of devises ; Ademption by extinction ; Satisfaction ; Abatement ; Exoneration ; Death of a devisee/anti-lapse statute ; Homicidal devisees ; Omission of close family members from a will; title: V. Intestate distritution. Definition ; Spouse's share ; Children and other descendants ; Parents and collateral kin ; Siblings of the decedent ; Grandparents of the decedent ; Other kin ; Laughing heirs ; Escheat ; Community property states; title: VI. Contracts relating to wills. Contracts relating to the disposition of a decedent's estate ; Joint or mutural will; title: VII. Miscellaneous concepts. Simultaneous death ; Inheritance rights of chlidren and relatives (status problems) ; Will contests ; Mortmain statutes.