Trusts and Estates Law Handbook 4th ed

Trusts and Estates Law Handbook brings together up to date texts of annotated and amended legislation for the trust practitioner. Each Act has been fully annotated with commentary which helps to provide a foundation for further research.

The fourth edition has been fully updated to include:

• The Estates of Deceased Persons (Forfeiture Rule and Law of Succession) Act 2011, and the introduction of clarification of the effect of disclaimers and forfeiture
• The Inheritance and Trustees' Powers Act 2014 and the statutory powers of advancement and maintenance that were enhanced by this
• The provisions for the virtual attestation of will that were introduced to the Wills Act 1837 during the Covid-19 Pandemic
• New regimes for perpetuities and accumulations, and apportionment that were introduced by the Perpetuities and Accumulations Act 2009 and the Trusts (Capital and Income) Act 2013 respectively
• The Presumption of Death Act 2013
• Important cases, including Marley v Rawlings [2014] UKSC 2, Akers v Samba [2017] UKSC 6 and Ilott v Mitson [2017] UKSC 17