Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Covers news, scholarship and topics relating to wills, trusts and estates.
Author: Gerry W. Beyer, a law professor at Texas Tech University School of Law, edits the Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog, which is part of the Law Professor Blogs Network.
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Recent Posts from Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
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Andre Norton -- What did she really want?
Andre Norton was a writer of hundreds of science fiction novels over her 70 year career. She died on March 15, 2005. A dispute is now being waged over her will and how it disposes…
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Life insurance killers get life sentence without parole
On July 15, 2008, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David S. Wesley sentenced Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt (both in their 70's) to life in prison without the possibility of parole because they sacrificed men…
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Attorney sanctioned for lying to probate and tax courts
A probate attorney's deciteful conduct was revealed and he will pay the price. Here are some excerpts from Estate of Mary Allison, T.C. Memo 2008-149, June 10, 2008: Mary Allison died in 1995. Her son,…
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Estate of Cory Lidle sued for building damages
On October 11, 2006, New York Yankee's pitcher Cory Lidle crashed his airplane into the 50-story Belaire Apartments in Manhattan. Cory died as did his co-pilot. Janice Carrington, the owner of one of the apartments,…
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Who is that in Grandma's dress?
What if you were at your grandmother's funeral and noticed she had all ten fingers, instead of the nine that she really had? Would you think that the morticians went the "extra mile" in restoration…
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California Enacts Modernized Pet Trust Statute
On July 22, 2008, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger approved S.B. 685 which replaces California's permissive pet trust statute with a modern statute with enforceable provisions. Here are some of the highlights of this new statute:…
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Suicide in Japan
Japanese citizens are committing suicide at an alarming rate. Here are some details from Paul Wiseman, Suicide epidemic grips Japan, USA Today, July 20, 2008: Approximately 34,000 Japanese citizens committed suicide in 2007. The Japanese…
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Mexico -- Assisted suicide and availability of suicide drugs
Assisted suicide (legal in the United States only in Oregon) is an increasing debated issue in Mexico. For example, in April 2008, the Mexican Senate voted to allow doctors to withdraw life-sustaining medicines in certain…
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More on FDIC insurance rules
As discussed earlier on this blog, it is important to know how FDIC insurance covers your savings, be it in retirement accounts, joint accounts, POD accounts, trust accounts, etc. After the failure of IndyMac, it…
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Tax Court's FLLP Mirowski case analyzed
Prof. Wendy Gerzog (Professor of Law, University of Baltimore School of Law) has recently posted on SSRN her article entitled Tax Court FLP Confusion: Mirowski. Here is the abstract of her article: The article critiques…