Casenote Legal Briefs for Wills, Trusts, and Estates: Keyed to Sitkoff and Dukeminier

Casenote(R) Legal Briefs: WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ESTATES, Keyed to Courses Using Sitkoff and Dukeminier's Wills, Trusts, and Estates, Twelfth Edition, is designed to help you save time by providing the facts, black letter law, and holding and decision for the principal cases covered in your casebook. Used as part of a rigorous study regimen, Casenote(R) Legal Briefs can help you spend more time analyzing and critiquing points of law than on copying bits and pieces of judicial opinions into your notebook or outline.

New to this Edition:

The following cases (new or revised in the Twelfth Edition of your casebook) are included in Casenote(R) Legal Briefs: WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ESTATES, Keyed to Courses Using Sitkoff and Dukeminier's Wills, Trusts, and Estates, Twelfth Edition:

- Matter of Estate of Beck

- Gibney v. Hossack

- In re Omega Trust

- Matter of Will of Kline

Students will benefit from:

Casenote(R) Legal Briefs break down the major cases in your casebook into a succinct, readable, and uncluttered format that details:

- the nature of the case

- the issue

- a summary of the facts

- the rule of law

- detailed facts

- the holding and decision, including dissents and concurrences, and

- a brief comment or analysis of the case

Additional Materials Include:

- Quicknotes following each case define legal terms used in the brief.

- A Glossary in the back of the book lists and defines Latin words and phrases commonly found in the language of the law.

- Quick Reference Rules of Law pages open every chapter and list the rules of law that apply in each case in that chapter.

- How to Brief a Case provides step-by-step instructions on how to format, organize, and write your own case brief with the greatest efficiency.