The Sixth Edition of Sterk and Leslie's Estates and Trusts modernizes a classic book to reflect important changes in the field. The new edition includes:

• Expanded discussion of trust decanting and directed trusts, including excerpts from the new Uniform Trust Decanting Act and Uniform Directed Trusts Act
• Eleven new principal cases decided since 2015, including:
  • Estate of Prince (applying the presumption of paternity to reject claims by persons claiming to be blood relatives of the renowned singer)
  • Aoki v. Aoki (upholding releases of powers of appointment in the estate plan of the founder of the Benihana restaurant chain)
  • Minnesota Life v. Rings (reconciling simultaneous death statutes with language in a beneficiary designation form)
  • Trust of Shire (construing the trust modification provisions of the UTC)
  • Pikula v. Department of Social Services (upholding a discretionary trust as a supplemental needs trust
• A completely rewritten-and brief-introduction to the federal estate tax, reflecting the current provisions of the code