New Casebook on the Law of Trusts and Estates in Wisconsin

Professor J. Gordon Hylton (Marquette University Law School)recently published a casebook entitled, WisconsinLaw of Trusts and Estates: Cases and Materials (August 2013).  Provided below is the description from VandeplasPublishing:

This is a traditionally organizedTrusts and Estates casebook that draws its materials exclusively from the caselaw and statutes of Wisconsin. The materials consist of judicial opinions fromthe Wisconsin Supreme Court, lower state courts, and federal courts operatingin Wisconsin, as well as substantial materials taken from the current WisconsinStatutes pertaining to probate, wills and intestacy, marital property, willsubstitutes, trusts, and fiduciary duties. A limited number of notes highlightthe areas in which Wisconsin law departs from the national norm. As aconsequence of the state specific focus of the text and the fact that cases aredrawn from across the span of Wisconsin’s history, it is possible to see the wayin which the law of wills and trusts (and professional responsibility) hasresponded to changing social circumstances and evolving patterns of wealthdistribution.