Reddit mentions: The best estates & trusts law books

Just finished a law degree in England, so I can give you the resources I used. Webb and Akkouh's book on trusts is relatively short and quite a good introduction. Parker and Mellow's book goes into more detail, but is older, so a bit outdated in parts. I never used Virgo's book but it was recommended to me by quite a few people. If you want the "authoritative" textbook then you'll probably want Megarry and Wade, but it's rather dense and may be too much for your purposes.

There have been a few pretty influential trusts cases in the past couple of years (including a rather important one overturning 120 years of law just this morning!) so you won't just be able to rely on any of these books absolutely, but I assume you're familiar with this if you're doing a masters.

I really like Andreas antonopoulos’ The Internet of Money Series. I support him on patreon too and have learned a ton there. https://www.patreon.com/aantonop
Jimmy Song’s programming bitcoin just came out and is good!
I also used Pamela Morgan’s cryptoasset inheritance planning to make sure my crypto is secure and my family will get it if something happens to me.

I've been working on these issues for a few years now and I've published a book: Cryptoasset Inheritance Planning: a simple guide for owners. It's available all around the world on amazon in paperback, kindle, and soon audiobook. https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoasset-Inheritance-Planning-Simple-Owners/dp/1947910116/

I've also published a bunch of free how-to guides that might interest you: http://medium.com/@pamelawjd or https://empoweredlaw.com/

Hope this helps!

I haven't read it, but seeing this book mentioned in a very positive light in the bitcoin space, which might be helpful: https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoasset-Inheritance-Planning-Simple-Owners/dp/1947910116/

Pamela Morgan wrote a book about how to do it:

https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoasset-Inheritance-Planning-Simple-Owners/dp/1947910116

Please note that you don't ONLY have to make sure that your keys aren't lost, you also have to make sure that whoever inherits it either knows how to manage things or at least doesn't get ripped off by whoever you designate to help, and also that whoever inherits does so in a way that the law recognizes as legal.

Do be aware that tax-wise, "step up basis" is your great and wonderful friend. Your heirs won't owe any taxes as long as the amount is under whatever limit your government sets (IIRC, federally, it's five million dollars in the U.S., but that may have changed or I may be mistaken -- also note that states vary).

If you have a lot, talk to a lawyer to make sure you handle it properly. Politicians love to bloviate about how they're going to "fix the system" but the reality is that nobody pays estate taxes unless they don't ever plan on how to manage things. For example, James Gandolfini fucked up royally, never planned on croaking, and so his estate ended up paying millions in totally unnecessary taxes, all because he was stupid. If he'd set up a trust, his heirs would have paid zero in taxes.

Pamela Morgan wrote a fantastic book about crypto inheritance planning. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1947910116/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_1947910116

We interviewed her on The Tatiana show that I co host. List of good tips and an important subject that most don't think about.
https://youtu.be/yAE7zrIJVhA

Looking for these two books, $5 each pp or venmo

Gerry W. Beyer
Examples & Explanations: Wills Trusts & Estates
6th Edition
ISBN-13: 978-1454850052, ISBN-10: 1454850051
https://www.amazon.com/Examples-Explanations-Wills-Trusts-Estates/dp/1454850051/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1509985796&sr=1-1&keywords=wills+and+estates+e+and+e


Peter Wendel
Emanuel Law Outlines: Wills, Trusts, and Estates Keyed to Dukeminier and Sitkoff
9th Edition
ISBN-13: 978-1454830320, ISBN-10: 1454830328
https://www.amazon.com/Emanuel-Law-Outlines-Estates-Dukeminier/dp/1454830328/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1509985796&sr=1-2&keywords=wills+and+estates+e+and+e

Hold your horses there buddy, I'm on your side. But since you seem like a feisty, *competent up-and-comer, maybe you would like to be paid tons of money? Just master these and you too can make money in the great, homestead haven of Texas:
Property Code 688pg.
Probate Code 327pg.
State Tax Code 2389pg.
That's not including Federal Banking Regs, Federal Tax Code, or case law that really governs foreclosure sales.

My point is really this: real estate transactions are not simple endeavors, and believe it or not the people completing these transactions are humans. Humans with families, distractions, hangovers, and Reddit browsing to share their attention with. Humans that make errors the more complicated the transaction gets. Good news is there's a remedy for most of these that doesn't involve a court or ridiculous attorney's fees.

Thanks a lot, much appreciated.

https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoasset-Inheritance-Planning-Simple-Owners/dp/1947910116

Our professor gives us "assessments" and one of them was on RAP. I used this and it explained it pretty well.

I'm sure your library has it, but yeah I would say just grab all the books you can at the library and just dive right in.

Relevant: https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoasset-Inheritance-Planning-Simple-Owners/dp/1947910116



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It's merely my favourite book, a total page turner from start to end. The 12th edition is particularly wonderful.

Rule of Proof:

1. Name all the interests and notice the contingent or executory interests
   
   
2. Name all the lives in being
   
   
3. Give birth to afterborns or widows
   
   
   
4. Kill all the lives in being
   
   
5. Add 21 years
   
   
6. Is there ANY possibility of remote vesting? If yes, the clause is VOID ab initio, at the creation of the clause.
   
   
   Example: Jee v. Audley:
   Grant: A to wife for life, then to M and the issue of her body, but if M's issue fails, then to the daughters of J and E then living.
   It is possible that Mary's issue will not fail until much more than 21 years after all persons living at the time of the will have died. Therefore, the "But If" portion is void and the grant reads: A to wife for life, then to M and the issue of her body
   
   It's hard to convey with one example. If you have the time, this workbook by Raymond Coletta takes you through everything you need to know about estates and future interests including RAP with 100+ examples. You can go through the entire thing and a couple of days and by then end you'll have everything mastered or at least close to it. As a bonus, his use of character names from South Park in his hypos makes things a little less dry.
   
   Edit: combined posts

See if your library has this book (or buy it if you think its worth it):

https://www.amazon.com/Exam-Workbook-Estates-Future-Interests/dp/0314286861/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=CN5HK9RBQ1FEAV8CB6CR

It's extremely good. It was way cheaper when I used it 4 years ago, not sure why it's so expensive now.

A very good book about cryptocurrency inheritance with step to step guide from Pamela is https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoasset-Inheritance-Planning-Simple-Owners/dp/1947910116

Not if you are thinking of putting your private keys in a gmail account.

Maybe, if you are thinking of this as a part of a more comprehensive system.

But again, not if this could be a single point of failure, like in "google changes their policy because of some reason, and your plan is screwed"

If you are interested in planning this, kudos to you!

I suggest this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoasset-Inheritance-Planning-Simple-Owners/dp/1947910116/

The author has several interesting articles, for example here:

https://medium.com/@pamelawjd

Savvy Estate Planning

https://www.amazon.com/Savvy-Estate-Planning-Before-Lawyer-ebook/dp/B0773GKY89/ref=nodl_

Pamela Morgan on Inheritance Planning for Crypto-Assets

Here is a book https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoasset-Inheritance-Planning-Simple-Owners/dp/1947910116 and some articles https://medium.com/@pamelawjd by Pamela Morgan on cryptoasset inheritance planning.

Cryptoasset Inheritance Planning: A Simple Guide for Owners https://smile.amazon.com/Cryptoasset-Inheritance-Planning-Simple-Owners/dp/1947910116/

This book saved my ass on Future Estates

https://www.amazon.com/Possessory-Estates-Interests-American-Casebook/dp/0314183698

https://btc-help.lima-city.de/inheritance/index.html

also

https://www.amazon.com/Cryptoasset-Inheritance-Planning-Simple-Owners/dp/1947910116

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