Wills & Trusts Case Briefs
Wills, Trusts, and Estates examines how property is transferred at death and the legal instruments used to plan for that transfer. The course covers intestate succession, will execution and revocation, trust creation and administration, fiduciary duties of trustees, and estate taxation.
The cases below include important decisions on testamentary capacity, undue influence, will contests, the creation and modification of trusts, and the rights of beneficiaries. You will find cases addressing the rule against perpetuities, charitable trusts, spendthrift provisions, and the evolving law of estate planning.
Each brief follows standard law-school format to help you prepare for class, build outlines, and review before exams.
Apple Inc. v. Pepper
Bennett v. Bennett
Biron v. Biron
Bohannan v. Bohannan
Broadway National Bank v. Adams
Butterfield v. Bonafide
Caribbean Broadcasting System, Ltd. v. Cable & Wireless PLC
Claflin v. Claflin
Clark v. McClure
Clymer v. Mayo
Cody v. SunTrust Bank
Deutsche Bank National Trust Co. v. Amsouth Bank
Eckerson v. Eckerson
Estate of Kovacs
Estate of Lakatosh
Estate of Sweeney
Farmers Insurance Group v. R. M. Williams
Federal Trade Commission v. Standard Oil Co. of California
Ferguson v. McCaffrey
FTC v. Staples, Inc.
Gaffney v. Gaffney
Hartman v. McDanel
Hotz v. Minyard
Hudson v. Hudson
In re Colleen M. Estate
In re Estate of Adams
In re Estate of Baird
In re Estate of Barlow
In re Estate of Becker
In re Estate of Berwick
In re Estate of Black
In re Estate of Blevins
In re Estate of Brady
In re Estate of Bright
In re Estate of Brown
In re Estate of Burdett
In re Estate of Burgett
In re Estate of Campbell
In re Estate of Casey
In re Estate of Chaney
In re Estate of Chapin
In re Estate of Coleman
In re Estate of Conklin
In re Estate of Davis
In re Estate of Donovan
In re Estate of Dubin
In re Estate of Dunn
In re Estate of Eddins
In re Estate of Elder
In re Estate of Eldridge
In re Estate of Evans
In re Estate of Fennell
In re Estate of Focht
In re Estate of Frey
In re Estate of Gargett
In re Estate of Gibbons
In re Estate of Gill
In re Estate of Gorman
In re Estate of Gray
In re Estate of Greenfield
In re Estate of Grover
In re Estate of Haines
In re Estate of Hall
In re Estate of Hanlon
In re Estate of Harlow
In re Estate of Herbert
In re Estate of Hollingsworth
In re Estate of Johnson
In re Estate of Jones
In re Estate of Kinsella
In re Estate of Knapp
In re Estate of Knowlton
In re Estate of Koontz
In re Estate of Kuralt
In re Estate of Lindgren
In re Estate of Mahoney
In re Estate of Mate
In re Estate of McCarthy
In re Estate of McDerman
In re Estate of McDonald
In re Estate of McGregor
In re Estate of McHugh
In re Estate of McKenzie
In re Estate of McKibben
In re Estate of McMillan
In re Estate of Merkel
In re Estate of Merritt
In re Estate of Meyer
In re Estate of Moore
In re Estate of Morton
In re Estate of Muir
In re Estate of Murdock
In re Estate of Neff
In re Estate of Nelson
In re Estate of O
In re Estate of O
In re Estate of O
In re Estate of Panske
In re Estate of Parker
In re Estate of Parkes
In re Estate of Peters
In re Estate of Phillips
In re Estate of Pomeroy
In re Estate of Putnam
In re Estate of Quinn
In re Estate of Ransom
In re Estate of Reiss
In re Estate of Riggins
In re Estate of Rodriguez
In re Estate of Rosengarten
In re Estate of Schmidt
In re Estate of Seitz
In re Estate of Shapira
In re Estate of Shaw
In re Estate of Shipman
In re Estate of Shumaker
In re Estate of Small
In re Estate of Smith
In re Estate of Stevens
In re Estate of Stone
In re Estate of Sweeney
In re Estate of Szafran
In re Estate of Totten (Matter of Totten)
In re Estate of Trull
In re Estate of Vances
In re Estate of Vandenberg
In re Estate of Vanderpool
In re Estate of Vargas
In re Estate of Wallace
In re Estate of Ward
In re Estate of Whitaker
In re Estate of White
In re Estate of Wilcox
In re Estate of Wilkins
In re Estate of Wilson
In re Estate of Winter
In re Estate of Wood
In re Estate of Woodward
In re Estate of Woolf
In re Estate of Wright
In re Estate of Wu
In re Estate of Wylie
In re Estate of Yost
In re Estate of Ziegler
In re Pulitzer
In re Strittmater (Estate of Strittmater)
In re Will of Marjorie W.
In re Will of Ranney
In re: Bell
In re: Burchett
In re: Electronic Books Antitrust Litigation
In re: Lord
In re: Music Industry Antitrust Litigation
In re: Reyes
Jones v. Harris
Kircher v. Kircher
Lafayette v. Louisiana Power & Light Co.
Latham v. Father Divine
Lipper v. Weslow
Nashville Milk Co. v. Carnation Co.
Owens v. Owens
Peterson v. American Airlines, Inc.
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America v. FTC
Philadelphia National Bank v. United States
Riggs v. Palmer
Rogers v. Rogers
Sherman v. United States
Stevens v. Casdorph
Story Parchment Co. v. Paterson Parchment Paper Co.
Sundance v. Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
Sweeney v. L.B. Foster Co.
Thompson v. Royall
Uniform Trust Code § 411
United States v. Aloha Airlines, Inc.
United States v. Altria Group, Inc.
United States v. American Airlines, Inc.
United States v. AT&T Inc.
United States v. Baker Hughes Inc.
United States v. Barry Wright Corp.
United States v. Brooklyn Dodgers, Inc.
United States v. Citigroup, Inc.
United States v. Coca-Cola Co.
United States v. Continental Airlines, Inc.
United States v. Delta Airlines, Inc.
United States v. Food Lion, Inc.
United States v. French
United States v. Grinnell Corp.
United States v. H&R Block, Inc.
United States v. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
United States v. I.B.M.
United States v. IBM Corp.
United States v. Information Builders, Inc.
United States v. Interstate Commerce Commission
United States v. J. J. R. Co.
United States v. J. P. Stevens & Co.
United States v. K-Mart Corp.
United States v. Koppers Co.
United States v. McKesson Corp.
United States v. Microsoft Corp.
United States v. National City Lines, Inc.
United States v. National Lead Co.
United States v. National Steel Corp.
United States v. Pan American World Airways, Inc.
United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.
United States v. Pittston Co.
United States v. Rosenfeld
United States v. Sealy, Inc.
United States v. Shell Oil Co.
United States v. Sinclair
United States v. Ticketmaster Corp.
United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Association
United States v. Union Carbide Corp.
United States v. Visa U.S.A. Inc.
United States v. Waste Management, Inc.
Wilkinson v. United States