Research Catalog

Title

The law of decedents' estates, by Max Rheinstein and Mary Ann Glendon.

Author

Rheinstein, Max, 1899-

Publication

Mineola, N.Y., Foundation Press, 1971.

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Details

Additional Authors

Glendon, Mary Ann, 1938-

Description

xxxi, 824 p.; 27 cm.

Series Statement

University casebook series

Uniform Title

• Cases and other materials on the law of decedents' estates
• University casebook series.

Alternative Title

Cases and other materials on the law of decedents' estates

Subjects

• Inheritance and succession > United States > Cases
• Wills > United States > Cases
• Trials, litigation, etc
• Probate law and practice > United States > Cases

Genre/Form

Trials, litigation, etc.

Note

• Originally published under title: Cases and other materials on the law of decedents' estates.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. Function and machinery of succession. 1. The social function of the law of succession -- 2. The machinery of succession -- II. Determination of distributees by rules of positive law (intestate succession). 3. Problems of policy, statutory interpretation and drafting in intestate succession -- III. Freedom of testation and its limits. 4. Limits of freedom of testation -- 5. Protection against disinheritance -- IV. Wills : execution and revocation. 6. Witnessed wills : formalities of execution -- 7. Wills other than witnessed wills : holographic wills, authenticated wills, emergency wills -- 8. Completeness of the testamentary instrument -- 9. Revocation and revalidation of testamentary instruments -- 10. Capacity to make or revoke a will -- 11. Discrepancy between text and "will" -- V. Determination of the testamentary scheme of disposition. 12. Survey -- 13. Interpretation : steps in the process -- 14. Interpretation : its subject matter -- 15. Rules for the closing of typical gaps in a will (stop-gap law) -- 16. Maxims of construction : judicial supplementation -- VI. Probate and administration. 17. Functions of probate and administration -- 18. Probate : special problems -- 19. Problems of administration -- VII. Transactions to eliminate or to influence the course of succession. 20. Transactions to restrain the defeasance of expectancies -- 21. Anticipation of inheritance -- 22. Transactions inter vivos with testamentary effects -- VIII. Some observations on estate planning and will drafting. 23. Estate planning -- 24. Will drafting -- Tax Tables. I. Federal estate and gift taxes -- II. State death tax credit for estate tax -- III. Illinois inheritance tax rates -- Appendix.

LCCN

^^^74173650^//r832

OCLC

• 213543
• SCSB-9983066

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library