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Procedures For Terminating Small Trusts, J. Rodney Johnson
Procedures For Terminating Small Trusts, J. Rodney Johnson
Law Faculty Publications
Trusts sometimes become too small for effective administration. This article discusses various provisions-statutory, common law, and drafting for terminating them. I.
Interspousal Property Rights At Death (You Can't Take It With You, But You Can Prevent Your Spouse From Getting Any Of It.), J. Rodney Johnson
Interspousal Property Rights At Death (You Can't Take It With You, But You Can Prevent Your Spouse From Getting Any Of It.), J. Rodney Johnson
Law Faculty Publications
One of the major issues in Virginia law during the past decade has been the matter of property rights upon the termination of a marriage by divorce. Now that the concept of equitable distribution has been introduced into Virginia law in order to bring about a greater degree of fairness into this area, it is time to direct the focus of law reform to a parallel issue interspousal property rights when a marriage is terminated by death. The importance of this issue to large numbers of Virginians is obvious when one stops to realize that, notwithstanding the dismal statistics on …
The Constitutionality Of The Feme Sole Estate And The Virginia Supreme Court's Creation Of An 'Homme Sole' Estate In Jacobs V. Meade, Maria Dill
University of Richmond Law Review
On April 27, 1984, the Virginia Supreme Court, in Jacobs v. Meade, was confronted with a constitutional challenge in the sensitive area of gender-based classifications. The object of the assault was the separate equitable estate, or feme sole estate. Historically, the feme sole estate was a method of holding property available exclusively to women. In Jacobs v. Meade, it was contended that since a man possessed no corresponding right to create a separate equitable estate, the feme sole estate was constitutionally defective on equal protection grounds.