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Why New Hampshire Should Permit Married Couples To Choose Community Property, Calvin Massey
Why New Hampshire Should Permit Married Couples To Choose Community Property, Calvin Massey
The University of New Hampshire Law Review
[Excerpt] “Two states, Alaska and Tennessee, offer married couples the choice of holding their property as separate or community property. Another nine states use community property as the default arrangement. Yet in each of those nine states a couple can opt out of community property rules by agreement. Only in the remaining thirty-nine states are married couples forced to accept separate property. There is no good reason for this condition to exist. This essay sets forth the advantages of offering married couples the choice of community or separate property and deals with some expected objections to this proposal. Section I …
Mission Impracticable: The Impossibility Of Commercial Impracticability, Jennifer Camero
Mission Impracticable: The Impossibility Of Commercial Impracticability, Jennifer Camero
The University of New Hampshire Law Review
[Excerpt] “Residents of Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood certainly cannot forget the recent financial crisis thanks to a gaping hole in their midst. That hole is to be the home of the Spire, the tallest building in the Northern Hemisphere, at 2,000 feet high with 1,194 residences ranging in price from $750,000 for a studio to $40 million for the penthouse. The developer, Shelbourne Development Group, Inc., began construction in 2007 using its own funds. It also obtained “starter” funds from Bank of America via a loan agreement that required Shelbourne to demonstrate proof of a construction loan by November 1, 2008. …