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LAW 0602: Trusts and Estates
Spring 2025 • Section 51 • CRN 2175

Course offerings for are still tentative. The information below is subject to change.

Course Description

This course provides a survey of the principal devices utilized in the transmission of accumulated family wealth, concentrating primarily on the requirements for creating, modifying and terminating wills and trusts. Intestate succession and will substitutes are also considered as are selected issues concerning future interests, powers of appointment and fiduciary administration. The course explores the often clashing policies of effectuating donative intent and restraining dead-hand control.


Schedule

Schedule To Be Announced

Course Details

Instructor
  • Finbarr McCarthy
Credit Hours

3 Credits

Seats/Capacity

40

Course Type
  • Exam
Course Modality

Online Asynchronous

Fulfills J.D. Requirement

None

Programs

None

Registration Info

Registration Notes

as of 11/20 - this course is open to all students Textbook note: For both my PR and T&E class, two items are marked as required. However, both involve the same text: the only difference in the both cases is that students have the option to add to the required text an Explanations and Examples book for an additional $5 if they buy the casebook. The bookstore will mark "recommended" on the E+E Bundle.


Book List/Materials

Materials To Be Announced