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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New York STOLI Litigation
When an investor convinces someone to purchase an insurance policy on their life and then purchases the policy from the insured, gambling on the length of the insured's life, this is called a stranger originated…
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Happy Independence Day!
Happy Fourth of July!!
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Damages for failure to sell real property not properly measured by appraised value
A coal mine was the sole principal asset of a testamentary trust created in 1921. The testator directed the co-trustees to hold the mine absent “very radical change” from current conditions. The revenue from the…
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Intestate Succession under the Catalan Code
Maurici Perez Simeon has recently posted on SSRN his article entitled Legal Rights v. Will When Testator's Beneficiary Predeceases the Testator, InDret, Volume 3, 2008. Here is the abstract of his article: Section 144.2 of…
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Michael Jackson -- Update
The following information is based on Michael Jackson's will; Jackson service set for Tuesday, BBC News, July 3, 2009; Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, Jackson sales surge outstrips Presley, Fin. Times, June 30, 2009; Christopher Beam, Grave Concerns:…
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Farms and the Federal Estate Tax
Don Hurst (USDA, Economic Research Service) has recently posted on SSRN his article entitled Federal Tax Policies and Farm Households, Economic Information Bulletin 54. Here is the abstract of his article: Significant changes in Federal…
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Treasure Hunter Loses Bid to Find His Treasure
Nathan Smith, a musician, was inspired by the movie National Treasure and began hunting for his own booty. Using Google Earth, he thought he found the site of a sunken ship bearing $3 billion worth…
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Article argues for Repeal of Estate Tax on Gifts Made with Strings Attached
Richard L. Dees (partner, McDermott, Will & Emery) has recently posted on SSRN his article entitled Time Traveling to Strangle Strangi (and Kill the Monster Again): Part 2. Here is the abstract of his article:…
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Are express and constructive trusts closer kin than usually thought?
Lionel Smith (Director, Quebec Research Centre of Private and Comparative Law) has posted his article on SSRN entitled Philosophical Foundations of Proprietary Remedies, PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE LAW OF UNJUST ENRICHMENT, R. Chambers, C. Mitchell,…
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Enjoying Art as Collateral
Art Capital Group specializes in lending to art owners in need of cash. The art owners put of their painting as collateral, which Art Capital will sell for a commission and repayment of the original…