Drafting Wills, Trusts, and Other Estate Planning Documents by Kevin D. MillardISBN: 1932779418
Publication Date: 2006-09-01
Attorneys need to draft well-written documents for their clients' success in a lawsuit.
Since legal drafting is not a skill that can be mastered in law school; it is an ongoing process that requires attention and continuous refinement throughout your legal career, this book will help you!
Drafting Wills, Trusts, and Other Estate Planning Documents can help you take the first steps toward improving your legal drafting skills and teach you new writing habits that will result in better documents. In addition to addressing issues of style, organization, grammar, and the appearance of the document, this book specifically teaches you how to adapt language from existing legal forms and refine it for use in your practice. The final chapter includes several estate planning documents, with annotations explaining how the author has incorporated the suggestions in this book to create clearer, more concise legal documents-and ones that still meet the needs of clients, other attorneys, and the courts.