Course Guides - Estates and Trusts
Course Description
This course integrates the law of wills, trusts and future interests. It includes; intestate succession; execution, revocation and contest of wills; the creations, elements and termination of private and charitable trusts; powers of appointment; class gifts; and social restrictions on perpetuities and accumulations. Prerequisite: Property (3 credits)
Faculty Who Teach This Course:
- William Brown, Esq. (adjunct Professor)
- Kenneth E. Gray (Professor of Law)
- Kenneth L. Hirsch (Professor of Law)
- Martha W. Jordan (Professor of Law)
- Margaret K. Krasik (Associate Professor of Law)
Subject Covered Presently in Collection by:
Print Collection
KF390.A4 Works on the Aged – Older People – Retired Persons
KF604-KF608 Future Estates and Interests in Land
KF726-KF745 Trusts and Trustees
KF746-KF750 Estate Planning
KF753-KF780 Succession upon Death
KFP137-KFP139 Pennsylvania Trusts and Trustees
KFP140 Pennsylvania Estate Planning
KFP142-KFP148 Pennsylvania Succession upon Death
Legal Periodicals in Print Collection
Legal Research Databases
- BNA Online
- CCH Library – Intelliconnect
- RIA Checkpoint
- Westlaw and Lexis
- Legal Scholarship Network
- Hein Online
- CALI
Videocassettes
Microfiche
DCLI Webpage Links
- Primary Legal Research: Case Law, Statutory Law, Administrative Law (contains quick links to our federal and state statutes, our federal and state administrative codes, and federal and state case law)
- Legal Research Guides: Law of the Aged, Tax Law
Under Subject Area:
- Elder Law
Course Listed Under the following Law School Areas of Interest:
- Elder Law
- Real Estate Law
- Tax Law
