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Professor Sterk & Cardozo Trust & Estates Law Society Invite You To: Surrogates And Sushi, Cardozo Trusts And Estates Law Society, Cardozo Family Law Society, Cardozo Criminal Law Society Apr 2023

Professor Sterk & Cardozo Trust & Estates Law Society Invite You To: Surrogates And Sushi, Cardozo Trusts And Estates Law Society, Cardozo Family Law Society, Cardozo Criminal Law Society

Flyers 2022-2023

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Marriage And Its Alternatives, Jeanine Elbaz Jan 2009

Marriage And Its Alternatives, Jeanine Elbaz

Tribeca Square Press

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Fraud On The Widow’S Share, W. D. Macdonald Jan 1960

Fraud On The Widow’S Share, W. D. Macdonald

Michigan Legal Studies Series

This study seeks the answer to a troublesome question: What should be done about gratuitous inter vivos transfers in alleged "evasion" of the widow's statutory share? My thesis is that the statutory share should be replaced by the type of decedent's family maintenance legislation found in the British Commonwealth, and that this legislation should be buttressed with anti-evasion provisions. Inter vivos "evasions" seem to be a permanent and increasingly serious concomitant of our forced share system. Part I, dealing with matters of policy, explores the chief aggravating factors. These factors include the high rate of remarriage, which induces transfers to …


Perpetuities And Other Restraints: A Study Of The Michigan Statutes And Decisions Relating To Perpetuities And Other Devices Which Fetter The Alienability Of Property, Against The Background Of The Laws Of England And Other American Jurisdictions, William F. Frachter Jan 1954

Perpetuities And Other Restraints: A Study Of The Michigan Statutes And Decisions Relating To Perpetuities And Other Devices Which Fetter The Alienability Of Property, Against The Background Of The Laws Of England And Other American Jurisdictions, William F. Frachter

Michigan Legal Studies Series

The central theme of this study comprises the judicial and legislative rules developed to restrict attempts by men of property to endow their families in perpetuity, usually with land, in such manner that each successive living generation can neither part with the property nor prevent unborn generations from succeeding to it. Part One deals with attempts to accomplish this object by bestowing the whole title on each living generation but denying each such generation the power to dispose of the property or to prevent its· descent to the next generation. In this part the principal restrictive rules are judicial, the …