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Multijurisdictional Estates And Article Ii Of The Uniform Probate Code, Jeffrey Schoenblum
Multijurisdictional Estates And Article Ii Of The Uniform Probate Code, Jeffrey Schoenblum
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
The prefatory note to the 1990 revisions of article II of the Uniform Probate Code ("UPC") indicates that the changes wrought are a response to several developments since the promulgation of the UPC in 1969. The prefatory note emphasizes the decline of formalism, the proliferation of will substitutes, the multiple-marriage society, and the rise of the partnership/marital sharing theory as stimulative of the revisions introduced. The theme of this article is that one other crucial development has been essentially ignored. No serious attempt has yet been made by the drafters to address the immensely complex yet commonplace issues associated with, …