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Wills, Trusts And Estates (Annual Survey Of Virginia Law, 1995-97), J. Rodney Johnson
Wills, Trusts And Estates (Annual Survey Of Virginia Law, 1995-97), J. Rodney Johnson
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The General Assembly enacted legislation dealing with wills, trusts, and estates that added, amended, or repealed a number of sections of the Code of Virginia in the 1996 and 1997 sessions. In addition, there were eleven Supreme Court of Virginia opinions in the two-year period ending April 18, 1997, that involved issues of interest to the general practitioner as well as the specialist in wills, trusts, and estates. This article reports on all of these legislative and judicial developments.
The Absence Of Due Process In Fiduciary Accounting: A Constitutional Concem, J. Rodney Johnson
The Absence Of Due Process In Fiduciary Accounting: A Constitutional Concem, J. Rodney Johnson
Law Faculty Publications
Once upon a time the content of a legal notice posted on the courthouse door was likely to become a matter of community knowledge within a reasonable period of time. Today, however, few persons would seriously suggest that courthouse posting satisfies minimum due process requirements for notice to parties of a proceeding affecting their property rights. Yet this is the only form of notice that Virginia law provides for beneficiaries when their fiduciaries make accountings before the commissioner of accounts. And, topping this, there is no provision for any form of notice to beneficiaries when the commissioner reports to the …