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1946

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Trusts And Estates-Trends In The Law: 1941-1945 (A Service For Returning Veterans), Lewis M. Simes Apr 1946

Trusts And Estates-Trends In The Law: 1941-1945 (A Service For Returning Veterans), Lewis M. Simes

Michigan Law Review

In every generation there are some judicial decisions so revolutionary that any summary of developments in the law, regardless of its author or of its brevity, would include them. Such cases as Erie Railroad v. Tompkins and Williams v. North Carolina will fall into this category no matter who lines up the materials. But such avulsive changes rarely if ever occur in the law of Trusts and Estates; and it is anybody's guess to determine the significant aspects of the day-to-day accretions which actually take place. Thus, the writer has no illusions that he is singling out the trends as …


Taxation-Federal Estate Tax-Reversionary Interests Under The Rule Of The Hallock Case-Valuation, Joseph R. Brookshire S.Ed. Feb 1946

Taxation-Federal Estate Tax-Reversionary Interests Under The Rule Of The Hallock Case-Valuation, Joseph R. Brookshire S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

In 1929 the decedent established a trust, reserving a life estate in the income. On the termination of this life estate, the income was payable in equal amounts to the decedent's daughters. If either daughter died, that part of the corpus supporting the share of income of the deceased daughter was to go to her descendants; if none, then to the other daughter or her descendants. If both of the daughters died without issue, the corpus was to be paid to such persons as decedent appointed by will; if no appointment was made, the corpus was to go to certain …