Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Wills

In 1815, in the Spanish settlement of San Antonio de Bexar, a dying widow named Maria Concepcion de Estrada recorded her last will and testament. Estrada used her will to record her debts and credits, specify her property, leave her belongings to her children, make requests for her funeral arrangements, and secure her religious salvation.
Wills like Estrada s reveal much about women s lives in the late Spanish and Mexican colonial communities of Santa Fe, El Paso, San Antonio, Saltillo, and San Esteban de Nueva Tlaxcala in present-day northern Mexico. Using last wills and testaments as...

Testamentary capacity is an increasingly difficult and important area in will preparation. The rise in capacity issues, associated with the increasing aging population and longer life expectancy, has become a fruitful area for dispute and litigation. This book equips practitioners with the knowledge and practical guidance needed in this complex but commonplace problem area.

Equity and Trusts: A Problem-Based Approach creates a fresh approach to learning through the use of integrated realistic case studies designed to simulate how the law works in practice. With comprehensive coverage of the complete equity and trusts curriculum, unlike other textbooks, it integrates a thorough exposition of the legal rules with applied problem-solving opportunities, highlighting the legal issues and providing essential context for the law.

The book s goal is to familiarise students with a more active and practical approach to equity and trusts that will deepen...

Equity and Trusts: A Problem-Based Approach creates a fresh approach to learning through the use of integrated realistic case studies designed to simulate how the law works in practice. With comprehensive coverage of the complete equity and trusts curriculum, unlike other textbooks, it integrates a thorough exposition of the legal rules with applied problem-solving opportunities, highlighting the legal issues and providing essential context for the law.

The book s goal is to familiarise students with a more active and practical approach to equity and trusts that will deepen...

My Life Manual: Estate Planning, Information and Messages for your Executors and Loved Ones

Australian Edition

Don't be forgotten

Take control of your affairs, for yourself and your family. Make your passing just that little bit easier for the ones you leave behind, and let them celebrate your memory.

This book will guide you and give you the opportunity to leave valuable information for your partner, children, friends, family and also your executor, such as:

• Drafting a Will;
• Protecting your assets;
• What if you...

Take control of your affairs, for yourself and your family. Make your passing just that little bit easier for the ones you leave behind, and let them celebrate your memory.

This book will guide you and give you the opportunity to leave valuable information for your partner, children, friends, family and also your executor, such as:

• Drafting a Will;
• Protecting your assets;
• What if you become incapacitated?
• Arrangements for your children: important everyday information for their guardian;
• Lists of all your assets and liabilities for...

My Life Manual: Estate Planning, Information and Messages for your Executors and Loved Ones. Australian Edition Don't be forgotten Take control of your affairs, for yourself and your family. Make your passing just that little bit easier for the ones you leave behind, and let them celebrate your memory. This book will guide you and give you the opportunity to leave valuable information for your partner, children, friends, family and also your executor, such as: Drafting a Will; Protecting your assets; What if you become incapacitated? Arrangements for your children: important everyday...

The Oxford Handbook of Fiduciary Law provides a comprehensive overview of fiduciary law, explaining how fiduciary principles operate across diverse substantive fields and legal systems. Unparalleled in its breadth and depth of coverage, the Handbook represents an invaluable resource for practitioners, policymakers, scholars, and students of this essential field of law.