Wills Trusts and Probate Law for Paralegals or Managing International Political Risk

Wills, Trusts, and Probate Law for Paralegals

Author: Pamela S Gibson

With a focus on practice and portfolio development, this book provides a detailed approach to the substantive law of estate planning and administration. It includes examples of a variety of documents and step-by-step instruction on their preparation. Each chapter includes practitioner-oriented assignments (role-playing activities, research assignments, portfolio assignments etc.) and coverage of estate planning and estate administration is balanced throughout. A separate chapter is devoted to tax law and offers a closer look at this more complicated area of the law. Paralegals

Table of Contents:

1. Wealth, Property, and Estates

2. Intestate Succession

3. Basic Estate Planning

4. Drafting a Basic Will

5. Trusts

6. Overview of Estate Administration and the Personal Representative

7. Step One–Issuance of the Letters of Appointment

8. Step Two–Inventory and Appraisal; Step Three–Creditors’ Claims

9. Step Four–Tax Documents

10. Step Five–Final Account; Step Six–Closing the Estate; Additional Estate Administration Procedures

Interesting book: Intelligenza culturale: Una guida al funzionamento con la gente da altre colture

Managing International Political Risk

Author: Theodore H Moran

Managing International Political Risk analyzes the changing nature of threats to international investment in the "BEM's"- Big Emerging Markets- such as China, Brazil, Russia, Pakistan, India, Venezuela, Vietnam, and the Philippines. The book examines the strategies developed by investors and lenders to deal with political risk in large oil, mining, and private infrastructure projects.
The book provides essential reading for international business and corporate finance classes in business schools and economics departments. It offers valuable insights and practical advice for international corporations, banks, investment funds, and insurers as they search fr methods to manage political risk in the contemporary period.
Corporate strategies from Chevron, Exxon, Llotd's of London, Citicorp, and Standard & Poor's, among others, examine the tools, techniques, and stratgeies adopted by firms and financial institutions to offset or deter political risk. Together with leading academics, they assess the costs and benefits of project finance, non-recourse lending, alternative syndication structures, securization of export receivables, bullet bonds, local financial participation, offshore escrow accounts, multilateral guarentees, and public and private political risk insurance. They navigate the cutting edge of new "deal structures" including credit derivatives, default swars, credit- linked notes, total return swaps, and two-way trades of " bite-sized" risk units.