Scope and history of gratuitous transfers
Administration of estates and trusts
Judicial procedure and evidence
Professional responsibility
Estate plan by operation of law
Taker qualifications
Bars to inheritance
Execution of wills
Revocation of will
Defining the scope of the will
Will contests and will substitute suits
Constructional problems of dispositions
Will substitutes
Planning for retirement and incapacity
Introduction to powers
Exercise of a power of appointment
Nonexercise of powers of appointment
Donee's creditors and spousal elections
Trusts: definitions and characteristics
Trust formalities: creation and termination
Revocable trusts
Trust interests and relationships
Trust modification and termination
Charitable trusts
Policy limitations on freedom of disposition
Voluntary regulation of disposition
Classification of estates and future interests
Consequences of classification
Class gifts
Rule against perpetuities and related doctrines
Concept of the fiduciary
Duties of fiduciaries
Powers of fiduciaries
Liability of fiduciaries and others
Taxation overview
The Federal gift tax
The Federal estate tax
Appendices.