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Learning Wills, Trusts, and Estates

1st Edition
Chenglin Liu
ISBN: 9781685615666
Subject: Trusts And Estates
Format: Print & Electronic - Hardbound
Page Count: 684
Copyright: 2025 | Status: In Stock

This title utilizes the CasebookPlus™ platform. Learn more at Faculty-CasebookPlus.com.

Learning Wills, Trusts, and Estates covers intestacy, will formalities, testamentary capacity and contests, will construction, will substitutes, trust creation, and trust administration. It is suitable for a three-hour course on wills and trusts for both in-person and online students.

Unlike traditional casebooks, this book prioritizes readability, clarity, rule learning, and frequent assessments over the case-centered teaching method. “Cases” in this book are presented in the author’s words, with key passages from the original opinions cited in indented paragraphs. As a result, each case takes up one to two pages on average. Students will find the cases much easier to read and follow.

This book utilizes flowcharts, timelines, family trees, and other visual aids throughout to simplify ideas and promote comprehension. Additionally, each chapter has a “Quick Summary” which synthesizes the key concepts and rules and provides example questions, allowing students to test their understanding. These tools help students receive, retain, and reinforce the complex information in the chapter and better navigate the course as a whole. Students will find this book more accessible, streamlined, and reader-friendly than traditional casebooks.

This title utilizes the CasebookPlus™ platform. Anchored by faculty-authored self-assessments, CasebookPlus allows students to test their understanding of core concepts as they are learning them in class with quizzes keyed to each chapter, subject area review quizzes, and helpful explanations. Learn more at Faculty-CasebookPlus.com.


Imprint: West Academic Publishing
Series: Learning Series
Publication Date: 06/20/2025

Chenglin Liu, St. Mary's University School of Law

CasebookPlus™

This title is available in our CasebookPlus format. CasebookPlus provides support beyond your classroom lectures and materials by offering additional digital resources to you and your students. Anchored by faculty-authored formative self-assessments keyed to our most popular casebooks, CasebookPlus allows students to test their understanding of core concepts as they are learning them in class – on their own, outside of the classroom, with no extra work on your part. CasebookPlus combines three important elements:

  • A new print or digital casebook
  • Access to a downloadable eBook with the ability to highlight and add notes
  • 12-month access to a digital Learning Library complete with:
Multiple-choice self-assessment questions, including:
  • Chapter questions keyed to the casebook
  • Black Letter Law questions (available in select subjects)
  • Subject area review questions for end of semester use
Essay and short answer questions with sample answers and expert commentary, in 1L and select upper-level subjects

Leading digital study aids, an outline starter, and audio lectures in select subjects

Students can still utilize CasebookPlus digital resources if they’ve purchased a used book or are renting their text by purchasing the Learning Library at westacademic.com.

With CasebookPlus, you can customize your students’ learning experience and monitor their performance. The quiz editor allows you to create your own custom quiz set, suppress specific quiz questions or quiz sets, and time-release quiz questions. Additionally, the flexible, customized reporting capability helps you evaluate your students’ understanding of the material and can also help your school demonstrate compliance with the new ABA Assessment and Learning Outcomes standards.

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