By Professor Howard S. Erlanger

1998 Edition, 414 Pages, $35.00

Every Wisconsin lawyer handling probate matters will find this book invaluable in understanding how the new probate code changes probate practice.

Howard Erlanger served as the Drafting Committee's reporter. This book includes the Drafting Committee's Notes and also provides Professor Erlanger's explanation and analysis of the many changes, large and small, to probate practice that will become effective beginning in January 1999. His expertise and unique perspective enrich the value of this book for Wisconsin lawyers and will establish this book as a mainstay for researching and resolving issues arising under the new probate code.

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Intestacy

Chapter 3 Wills

Chapter 4 Transfers at Death

Chapter 5 Family Rights

Chapter 6 Miscellaneous Provisions

Appendices

About the Author

Howard S. Erlanger is a Voss-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he teaches in the areas of wills, trusts and estates, probate, marital property, and estate planning. He has received several awards for his work in these areas. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and his J.D. from the UW Law School. He is an Academic Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.

Professor Erlanger was thereporter for the State Bar committee that drafted the new probate code and is the authorof Wisconsin's new Probate Code: A Handbook for Practitioners, published by the UW LawSchool - Continuing Legal Education for Wisconsin.

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