Probate Law and Practice with Forms (Massachusetts Practice Series, Volumes 21 and 22) is an invaluable guide to the probate of any estate and provides extensive forms and expert analysis. These volumes include comprehensive treatment of will contests, taxation, guardians, personal representatives, trusts and trustees, sales, mortgages, and appeals and review.
The Third Edition includes extensive new discussion on topics including:
- Non-judicial settlement agreements and updated discussions of antenuptial and postnuptial agreements
- Descent and distribution of property
- Settlements and advancements
- Estates of deceased nonresidents
- Insolvent estates of deceased persons
- Probate titles to property
- Administration of intestate estates
- Kinds of administration
- Appointment of personal representative in probate of will
- Bonds of fiduciaries
- Payment of debts and legacies
- Suits on probate bonds
- Death, resignation or removal of personal representative
- Nature and kinds of trusts
- Appointment and removal of trustees
- Accounts of trustees
- Guardianship and temporary guardianship