Publisher's Synopsis
<b>A CALIFORNIA COMPANION includes all of the statutes required for The California Bar Exam, plus selected additional statutes, covering: </b> <ul> <li> Intestate succession </li> <li> Wills, no-contest clauses </li> <li> Non-probate transfers </li> <li> Disqualified transferees </li> <li> Powers of appointment </li> <li> Rights of creditors to reach trust assets </li> <li> Trustee’s duty to inform and account </li> </ul> <b>A CALIFORNIA COMPANION features thirty-seven California cases and includes notes on thirty-five others, covering: </b> <ul> <li> Time limits on filing petition to probate will and claiming property of the decedent </li> <li> Inheritance by, from, and through adopted and non-marital children </li> <li> Equitable adoption </li> <li> Inheritance by children conceived after death of parent </li> <li> Execution and revocation of formal and holographic wills </li> <li> Forfeiture for elder abuse </li> <li> Disqualified transferees & certificates of independent review </li> <li> Attorney’s malpractice liability to intended beneficiaries </li> <li> No contest clauses </li> <li> Determining whether beneficiary survived decedent </li> <li> Creating and revoking trusts </li> <li> Severing a joint tenancy & right to withdraw funds from joint account </li> <li> Special needs trusts </li> <li> Rights of creditors in trust assets </li> </ul> <b>New in the 2011 EDITION:</b> <b>Major statutory changes:</b> <ul> <li> §§ 21360-21392 (disqualified transferees) </li> <li> § 15408 (termination of trust with uneconomically low principal) </li> <li> §§ 16060.7-16064 (trustee’s duty to inform and account to beneficiaries) </li> <li> § 17200 (petitioning court to determine trust matters) </li> </ul> New cases: <ul> <li> <i>Aguilar v. Aguilar</i> </li> <li> <i>Chatard v. Oveross</i> </li> <li> <i>Citizens Business Bank v. Carrano</i> </li> <li> <i>Estate of Heggstad</i> </li> <li> <i>Estate of Lensch</i> </li> <li> <i>Estate of Stoker</i> </li> <li> <i>Estate of Winans</i> </li> <li> <i>Estate of Ziegler</i> </li> <li> <i>Shewry v. Arnold</i> </li> </ul>
