The new Seventh Edition retains the late Jesse Dukeminier’s distinctive blend of wit, erudition, insight, and playfulness and covers all the key topics in a logical, clear organization. Integrated are interesting cases this are not only fun to read, but fun for professors to educate as well. Cases are increased and connected to broader legal principles by well-written notes, questions, and problems and cartoons, illustrations, and photographs offer humorous interruptions and visual commentary at appropriate places inside the topic. New authors James Lindgren and Robert Sitkoff updated the book to reflect legal modify while remaining careful to retain the same interesting mix of cases, engaging notes and flexible organization this makes this a highly successful casebook. Additions and innovations to the previous edition contain due attention to new developments in law reform by the ALI and NCCUSL such as: Restatement Third, Trusts (2003, Uniform Trust Code (2000) counting proposed 2004 amendments, Restatement (Third) of Property: Wills and Other Donative Transports (2001, 2003)and Uniform Disclaimer of Property Interests Act (2002. Attention is given to ongoing developments in the law such as inheritance rights of posthumously conceived kids, standing of donors in suits against the trustees of charitable trusts, the rise of domestic offshore self-settled spendthrift trusts, the erosion of the rule against perpetuities and the rise of the perpetual, generation-skipping trust. There is increased coverage of increasingly important topics such as fiduciary administration and trust investment law (counting modern portfolio theory, diversification, the principal and income problem, and measuring damages; and inheritance rights of same-sex associates, inheritance rights of kids, together with comparison to the other common law countries (which are far extra generous to kids). In addition integrated is a extra logical presentation of nonprobate transports and their role in estate planning, fully updated tax chapter together with attention to new developments such as the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001. Notes, questions, and problems have been revised throughout where appropriate in light of the foregoing and other developments.