Wills and Estates

Semester: Spring 2025
Course ID: 489N
Credit Hours: 4
Unique: 29160

Course Information

Grading Method: Pass/Fail Allowed (JD only)
Will use floating mean GPA if applicable

Registration Information

Upperclass-only elective

Meeting Times

Day	Time	Location
MON, TUE, WED	9:05 - 10:12 am	TNH 2.124

Evaluation Method

Type	Date	Time	Location
Final exam	May 6, 2025

Description

Wills and Estates focuses on donative transfers of property. Included are community property, intestate succession, the execution and revocation of wills, frequently recurring drafting problems, the use of trusts, fiduciary administration, future interests, the rule against perpetuities, powers of appointment, estate and gift taxation, and basic estate planning. The course emphasizes Texas law, but it also examines the law of many other jurisdictions, as well as numerous Uniform Acts.

This is a four credit course. There are no prerequisites.

Textbooks ( * denotes required )

Cases And Materials On Gratuitous Transfers, Wills *

Ascher, Mark, McCouch, Grayson, and Ascher, Mark L.

West Academic , edition: 7, New Edition
ISBN: 978-1-64020-610-6

Johanson's Texas Estates Code Annotated, 2024 ed. *

Johanson

Thomson Reuters , edition: 2024
ISBN: 979835020684-5

Instructors

Ascher, Mark L.