The new edition of Gratuitous Transfers incorporates developments in the law of wills, trusts and estates since 2013, including a new principal case involving beneficiary consent to trust accounting. The text also includes references to case law and literature relating to same-sex marriage, revocation by divorce, reformation of wills, directed trusts, trust decanting, and fiduciary access to digital assets, as well as statutory references to recent amendments to the Uniform Probate Code and Uniform Trust Code. The coverage has been thoroughly updated while maintaining continuity of organization and general approach with previous editions.

The new edition of Gratuitous Transfers incorporates developments in the law of wills, trusts and estates since 2007, including new principal cases involving insane delusions, formalities of will execution, charitable restrictions and trust modification. The text also includes references to case law and literature relating to same-sex marriage, posthumously-conceived children, transfer-on-death deeds, asset protection and perpetual trusts, as well as statutory references to amended Uniform Probate Code provisions concerning parent-child status, spousal elective share and notarized wills. The coverage has been thoroughly updated while maintaining continuity of organization and general approach with previous editions.

This book is designed for law school courses covering intestate succession and wills. The cases, problems, and questions are drawn extensively from Texas materials and attempt to provide the student with a comprehensive understanding of how property transmission at death is handled in Texas.

Cases and Materials on Business Entities is a concise, modern, student-friendly treatment of business organizations, including LLCs, partnerships, and agency Intended for the basic course in Business Organizations, Cases and Materials on Business Entities encompasses corporations, agency, partnership, and LLCs. Its extended coverage of alterative business entities distinguishes it from the more limited corporations-focused coverage of many business organizations texts. The author includes over 40 detailed problems designed to help the students become practice-ready. The book provides more than 25 drafting exercises, each based on the actual language at issue in a principal case. All the principal cases were decided within the last 20 years. The recipient of numerous teaching awards, author Eric Chiappinelli has taught, written, and practiced extensively in business entities and corporate law. New to the Fifth Edition: Ten new cases, including In re The Boeing Co. (Sept. 2021) and United Food & Comm’l Workers Union v. Zuckerberg (Facebook) (Sept. 2021). Fiduciary Duty chapters thoroughly revised to reflect current principles. LLC chapter heavily updated. Professors and students will benefit from: Up-to-date: Principal cases are less than 20 years old, and cases from the Fourth Edition that are now more than 20 years old have been replaced. Comprehensive, succinct coverage: Based on the results of a survey of business entities professors, the full coverage encompasses corporations, LLCs, partnerships, and agency in a briefer than average text. Accessible approach: Student-friendly writing style and format makes information accessible through multiple analytical approaches, with a real-world, practical approach in examples, notes, and problems. Pedagogical approach favoring instructional flexibility: “Current Setting” sections; “Background and Context” sections; innovative note structure including “Reality Check,” “Suppose,” and “What Do You Think?” sections; Nearly 80 assessment options through two innovations: more than 25 “You Draft It” exercises, which provide students with drafting exercises taken directly from the documents at issue in the case, and over 40 detailed “Putting it To Work” problems, which give students a chance to synthesize the doctrines. Teaching materials include: Teacher’s Manual

Written by leading experts who have shaped and defined the law of restitution, the book provides an authoritative and scholarly guide to the subject. The second edition of this seminal title continues the formula of the first edition by combining a comprehensive coverage of cases with extracts from leading academic authorities.

Thoroughly revised and updated to reflect evolving case law and recent developments in the Restatement (Third) of Trusts and revisions to the Uniform Probate Code and other uniform laws. Furnishes ample material for a basic survey course on wills, trusts and decedents' estates, and for more advanced courses in the field. Includes surviving spouse's elective share and waiver of marital property rights; recent cases on the creation of trusts, exceptions to spendthrift protection, and remedies for breach of the fiduciary duty of loyalty; fiduciary investments and the prudent investor rule; and the Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities.