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Buying Assets In Tennessee: An Annotated Model Tennessee Asset Purchase Agreement, Joan Macleod Heminway, Angela Humphreys Hamilton
Buying Assets In Tennessee: An Annotated Model Tennessee Asset Purchase Agreement, Joan Macleod Heminway, Angela Humphreys Hamilton
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The coauthors have constructed a model asset purchase agreement, annotated with footnotes on substantive law and legal drafting issues. This model is intended to be used as a research piece, teaching tool, and practitioner resource. This agreement is part of a series of acquisition agreements and related ancillary contracts and instruments published by Transactions: Tennessee Journal of Business Law beginning in 2003.
Spousal Election: Suggested Equitable Reform For The Division Of Property At Death, Angela M. Vallario
Spousal Election: Suggested Equitable Reform For The Division Of Property At Death, Angela M. Vallario
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Testators have traditionally enjoyed immense discretion in directing the disposition of their wealth upon death; however, when a spouse survives the testator, public policy dictates a limitation on the testator's ability to dispose of property. American jurisdictions impose this limitation through the elective share in common law states and by the nature of property ownership in community property states. Ideally, this limitation should ensure equitable financial protection for the surviving spouse and protect his or her interest in assets that were accumulated with the decedent, yet the current elective share methods fall short of these goals.