Family Property Law Cases and Materials (University Casebook Series)

The Fifth Edition of this highly regarded casebook continues its innovative emphasis on the connection between the law of trusts and estates and the changing American family. The Fifth Edition incorporates the most recent material from the Uniform Law Commission and the American Law Institute, and discusses the very latest “hot” topics, including trust protectors, directed trusts, trust decanting, family offices, and donor standing to enforce charitable trusts. The authors of this book have been at the forefront of law reform in the field of trusts and estates, and this tradition continues under the authorship of Thomas Gallanis, who serves as associate reporter for the Restatement Third of Trusts, as the assistant executive director of the Uniform Law Commission’s Joint Editorial Board for Uniform Trust and Estate Acts, as co-chair of the uniform laws committee within the ABA Section on Real Property, Trust and Estate Law, and as the reporter for a new drafting committee pr