Product Description: Providing a detailed discussion of all aspects relating to probate bonds, this handbook is written by a team of highly experienced attorneys and claims professionals. Its twenty chapters examine all topics relevant to the issues that arise in the use of probate bonds, including:Public policy and the requirement for probate bondsUnderwriting and issuing probate bondsTypes of probate bondsClaimants on a bond, and the conditions or requirements for claims on a bondStatute of limitations on the surety's liabilityHandling and disposition of fiduciary bond claimsLiability issues, including for money principal borrows, the surety's liability for acts before the bond was issued, and for misconduct of co-fiduciariesAttorney neglect and bad acts on the suretyFiduciaries serving estates in multiple capacitiesThe Prudent Investor Rule and exposure of the probate suretyNon-estate property obtained under “Color of Office” Prior judgment against the principalPenal sum issues relating to probate bondsDefenses available to the probate bond suretyRecovery and salvageProbate surety and bankruptcyPractical guidance on handling probate bond claim...read more

The leading text in the field takes a practical approach, illustrating legal principles through examples, exercises, legal forms, checklists, and actual drafts of wills and trusts. Students are exposed to detailed procedures and are prepared for everyday practical duties of the paralegal through comprehensive, authoritative coverage. Blend of theory and practice balances the need for understanding concepts and law and the need to be able to apply it.

Product Description: Managing Disputes over Wills and Inheritance provides an authoritative, insider's perspective on best practices for advising clients during the often emotionally charged process of distributing a deceased's assets. Featuring partners from some of the nation's leading law firms, this book guides the reader through the most common disputes, including unequal division of assets, disinheritance, multiple-marriage scenarios, children from a prior marriage, and the asset titling and beneficiary designations for non-probate assets...read more

Product Description: When a loved one dies, we want to know that their final wishes were carried out as they had hoped. Being entrusted to carry out these wishes is an enormous responsibility, and one you may not fully understand. The title of executor is given to those who have been named to administer a will and handle the specifics involved with settling an estate...read more

Product Description: Surrogate Court dockets are filled with cases involving family members fighting over the assets and intentions of a deceased parent or spouse. Probate Wars of the Rich & Famous: An Insider’s Guide to Estate Planning and Probate Litigation tracks the estate litigation cases of Anna Nicole Smith, Brooke Astor, Michael Jackson, Nina Wang, Jerry Garcia and Leona Helmsley and identifies the five universal factors that caused such disputes...read more

Product Description: Administration of Wills, Trusts, and Estates, fourth edition, has proven to be a highly successful text for paralegal students, marrying dense content with a reader friendly style that utilizes extensive examples. The use of celebrity wills and estates as illustrations provides access for students into complicated legal topics...read more

The third edition of this text follows tradition with an easy-to-understand writing style that helps paralegal and legal assistant students comprehend a complex technical subject area. Undergraduate students who plan to work in the legal field, but who are not law students, will find this text to be very focused and to the point, yet broad in its coverage of topic areas related to wills, trusts and estates. All legal terms are clearly defined when first presented in the text. State-by-state information is presented clearly with the use of maps, tables and case studies. Charts and boxed cases help to make complex topics easier to understand. Each chapter begins with an outline, a list of outcomes, and job competencies. This is followed by a "day-at-the-office" scenario with questions about legal and ethical issues that arise. This gives the students a real world context in which to study the concepts of the chapter. Celebrity features, including photos, pique student interest while illustrating the subject at hand. At the end of each chapter, students find a summary, review questions, cases to discuss and chapter projects entitled "Sharpening Your Professional Skills" and Sharpening Your Legal Vocabulary". Instructors have applauded these unique features and appreciate the suggestions and guidelines for further research.

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Product Description: Nontraditional families are today an important part of American family life. Yet when a loved one dies, our inheritance laws are often stingy even towards survivors in the nuclear family. With humor, enthusiasm, and a bit of righteous outrage, Ralph C...read more

Product Description: Stow, J.W. Probate Confiscation: The Unjust Laws which Govern Women. Fourth edition revised and enlarged. [n.p.]: Printed and sold by the author, 1879. 301 pp. Reprint available 2003 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2002044366. Hardcover...read more

Thoroughly updated to reflect the latest tax regulations, an authoritative guide to settling an estate explains an executor's duties and discusses such topics as probate, life insurance, bank accounts, debts, estate taxes, legal complexities, asset distribution, and more. Original. (view table of contents)

The leading text in the field takes a practical approach, illustrating legal principles through examples, exercises, legal forms, checklists, and actual drafts of wills and trusts. Students are exposed to detailed procedures and are prepared for everyday practical duties of the paralegal through comprehensive, authoritative coverage. Blend of theory and practice balances the need for understanding concepts and law and the need to be able to apply it. (view table of contents)

Essentials version of the leading text that takes a practical approach, illustrating legal principles through examples, exercises, legal forms, checklists, and actual drafts of wills and trusts. Students are exposed to detailed procedures and are prepared for everyday practical duties of the paralegal through comprehensive, authoritative coverage. Blend of theory and practice balances the need for understanding concepts and law and the need to be able to apply it. Material from the main hardcover text has been eliminated that is not covered by all instructors, such as Chapters 12 (Formal Probate), 13 (Informal Probate), and 14 (Tax Considerations); the UPC Appendix; majority of the sample forms in the appendix related to Chapters 12 and 13.

Product Description: As the authoritative resource on optical scattering, this book was developed from many years of teaching light-scatter measurement and analysis courses to optical engineers. Dr. Stover covers scattering beginning with its basics and covering surface roughness calculations, measurements, instrumentation, predictions, specifications, and industrial applications...read more