Stocker on Drawing Wills and Trusts has been a staple in the library of attorneys and estate planners for more than fifty years. It offers you uniquely clear, field-tested drafting guidance that ensures wills and trusts fully express clients' wishes without provoking costly legal challenges.

Enhanced by hundreds of labor-saving sample forms and clauses, the fourteenth edition of Stocker gives you the skills to help clients capitalize on the full range of tax-saving and non-tax opportunities, including:

• pinpointing testators' concerns and goals before drafting
• translating clients' objectives into precise provisions
• amending wills before their execution
• drafting legacies that clearly define articles and legatees
• specifying tangible personal property
• ensuring tax clauses in wills match the directions provided in trusts
• avoiding drafting pitfalls
• anticipating contingencies that could upset wills or trusts, and
• executing wills properly so they withstand probate contests.

Stocker on Drawing Wills and Trusts is a vital planning tool for estates, trusts, and tax planning specialists and any general practitioner involved in crafting wills and trusts.