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Symposium: The Role Of Federal Law In Private Wealth Transfer, Jeffrey Schoenblum
Symposium: The Role Of Federal Law In Private Wealth Transfer, Jeffrey Schoenblum
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Increasingly, federal law impacts court decisions involving private wealth transfer. Increasingly, federal law is the central consideration in premortem and postmortem planning for private wealth transfer. Despite this, until recently, little scholarly attention has been paid to this phenomenon; the assumption regarding the centrality of state law, quoted above, having gone largely unquestioned. But now that the "sleeping giant" has awakened, the role that federal law plays in private wealth transfer requires serious and comprehensive academic consideration.