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Wills
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The New York Probate Litigation Blog
Self-executing Affidavits
New York attorneys are encouraged to attach a "living" or self-executing affidavit to the wills they draft and supervise. This is a sworn statement by the witnesses to the will,…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Interpretation of Wills
University Professor Kent Greenawalt of the Columbia Law School has recently published an article entitled What is Legal Interpretation? A Pluralist Approach to Interpretation: Wills and Contracts, 42 San Diego…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
New Book by Pennell & Newman
Professors Jeffrey N. Pennell (the Richard H. Clark Professor of Law at the Emory University School of Law) and Alan Newman (University of Akron School of Law) have recently authored…
Texas Estate Planning and Probate Law
Some Time Off and Some Problems Revisited
I am taking a much needed vacation beginning July 30th and heading to what I hope are the much cooler climates of Colorado for a week. I will not be…
Louisiana Law Blog
Videotaping the Last Will and Testament
By Kean Miller
The Governor has signed into law Act no. 79 of the 2005 Louisiana Legislature which creates New Code fo Civil Procedure Article 2904 allowing for the admissibility of videotape of…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Court Saves Sloppy Disclaimer
In Phillips v. Ivy, 160 S.W.3d 91 (Tex. App.—Waco 2004, pet. denied), Testator’s will left a life estate in his real property to Wife with remainder to Daughter. The life…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Testamentary Intent & Technology
In the case of In re Estate of Steed, 152 S.W.3d 797 (Tex. App. – Texarkana 2004, pet. filed), a computer file was located on Testator’s computer containing a document…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Substantial Compliance With Will Formalities
In his comment, Sean P. Milligan discusses The Effect of a Harmless Error in Executing a Will: Why Texas Should Adopt Section 2-503 of the Uniform Probate Code, 36 St.…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Fixing Defective Wills
In her comment, Equitable Remedies for Nonconforming Wills: New Choices for Probate Courts in the United States, 79. Tul. L. Rev. 723 (2005), Leigh Shipp outlines the current remedies for…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Wills, Trusts, and Estates — 7th edition
Aspen has recently released the 7th edition of Wills, Trusts, and Estates now authored by Jesse Dukeminier (Late Maxwell Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles), Stanley M. Johanson…