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Wills and Estates

  • Semester: Fall 2025
  • Course ID: 489N
  • Credit Hours: 4
  • Unique: 30660

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, WED, THU 9:05 - 10:12 am TNH 3.129

Evaluation Method

Type Date Time Location
Final exam (administered by Exam4 in Open Laptop mode) December 10, 2025 1:30 pm A-Z in 2.124

Description

This course deals with donative transfers of property, including intestate succession, probate administration of decedents’ estates, execution and revocation of wills, the use of trusts in estate planning, and rules of construction that affect will and trust drafting. The course also will cover community property laws and basic estate tax and gift tax principles. Relevant Texas Estates Code and Uniform Probate Code statutes will be included in a Supplement to the casebook. Prerequisites: None.

Textbooks ( * denotes required )

Wills, Trusts, And Estates, Eleventh Edition: [con *
Sitkoff, Robert H. and Dukeminier, Jesse
Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory US , edition: 11
ISBN: 978-1-5438-2446-9

Instructors

Headshot of Johanson, Stanley M. Johanson, Stanley M.
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Important Class Changes

Date Updated
10/27/2025 Exam information updated
07/17/2025 Room(s) changed
04/22/2025 Room(s) changed