Newhall's Settlement of Estates and Fiduciary Law in Massachusetts is the definitive treatise for lawyers, bankers, paralegals, and others involved in the settlement of estates and the administration of trusts in Massachusetts. This edition covers all major topics and includes the following features:
- Inheritance tax tables, necessary for future interests for which the inheritance tax remains effective
- Forms for self-proving affidavits for wills
- An estate administration checklist
Massachusetts Inheritance and Estate Taxes Procedural Manual (in the appendix)
Topics include:
- Probate courts
- Executors and administrators
- Estate administration
- Sale under license of the court
- Taxes
- Payment of debts and claims
- Insolvent estates
- The right to waive the provision of a will
- Interstate problems
- Allowance to surviving spouse and minor children
- Rules of inheritance and descent
- Payment of legacies
- Distribution of intestate property
- Actions by and against executors and administrators
- Partition
- Wills
- Guardians and conservators
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