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Wills, Trusts, And Administration Of Estates, James C. Rehberg Dec 1990

Wills, Trusts, And Administration Of Estates, James C. Rehberg

Mercer Law Review

Without doubt, the most important developments in fiduciary law in Georgia during the past year were legislative. The most attention-grabbing of these are, first, the repeal of Georgia's version of the common law rule against perpetuities and the adoption in its stead of the Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities and, second, the repeal of the Georgia Gift to Minors Act and the adoption in its stead of the Georgia Transfers to Minors Act. These two statutes, along with several other significant but less attention-grabbing ones, will be discussed in the first portion of this Article. A discussion of noteworthy judicial …


Premarital Wills And Pretermitted Children: West Virginia Law V. Revised Uniform Probate Code, Elma M. Reed Sep 1990

Premarital Wills And Pretermitted Children: West Virginia Law V. Revised Uniform Probate Code, Elma M. Reed

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Reforming The Law Of Interstate Succession And Elective Shares: New Solutions To Age-Old Problems, John W. Fisher Ii, Scott A. Curnutte Sep 1990

Reforming The Law Of Interstate Succession And Elective Shares: New Solutions To Age-Old Problems, John W. Fisher Ii, Scott A. Curnutte

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Property Of The Estate After Confirmation Of A Chapter 13 Repayment Plan: Balancing Competing Interests, Vickie L. Vaska Jul 1990

Property Of The Estate After Confirmation Of A Chapter 13 Repayment Plan: Balancing Competing Interests, Vickie L. Vaska

Washington Law Review

Under Chapter 13 of the Bankruptcy Code, it is unclear whether property of the estate and protection of the automatic stay continue after confirmation of debtor's repayment plan. Courts use diverse approaches to determine whether property of the estate exists after confirmation, resulting in confusion for trustees, debtors, and creditors. This Comment proposes that bankruptcy courts use their equitable powers and adopt a test that balances the competing interests of debtor and creditor


Perpetuities: Three Essays In Honor Of My Father, Susan F. French Apr 1990

Perpetuities: Three Essays In Honor Of My Father, Susan F. French

Washington Law Review

The Rule Against Perpetuities is afrequent source offrustration and puzzlement for property students, professors, and practitioners In this Article, the Author presents three essays; her method of analyzing perpetuities problems, a proposalf or refinement of the common law rule, and an examination of the possible benefits of dead hand control. Although the Author has followed in her father's footsteps, becoming a property professor, some of her views on perpetuities diverge from his. Because scholarly discussion of perpetuities historically has taken the form of "Article and Reply" in various Law Reviews, Professor Robert L Fletcher's response follows his daughter's essays.


Perpetuities: A Father's Reply, Robert L. Fletcher Apr 1990

Perpetuities: A Father's Reply, Robert L. Fletcher

Washington Law Review

Susan has persuasively argued for adoption of a method that would look at the various chains of events—the resolving sequences—thus to separate those that fail from those that pass. We differ in only one important respect. In some instances she would use a life or portion of a life that is extraneous to the vesting reached in a particular sequence. I would not. In doing so, she in effect adopts Professor Dukeminier's "affecting lives" approach. To put this in my terms, she uses any life or portion of a life that is pertinent to vesting of any sequence within the …


The Uniform Probate Code's "Augmented Estate" Concept: A Remedy For The North Carolina Dissent Statute, Charles H. Munn Jr. Apr 1990

The Uniform Probate Code's "Augmented Estate" Concept: A Remedy For The North Carolina Dissent Statute, Charles H. Munn Jr.

Campbell Law Review

This Comment will show that state statutes are not always effective. This Comment (1) discusses North Carolina's dissent statute, (2) shows the possible unfairness the North Carolina dissent statute may cause, and (3) argues why the Uniform Probate Code's "augmented estate" concept should be incorporated in North Carolina's dissent statute.


Privacy, Family, And Medicial Decision Making For Persistant Vegetative Patients, Steven M. Weiner Feb 1990

Privacy, Family, And Medicial Decision Making For Persistant Vegetative Patients, Steven M. Weiner

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Whose Beneficiaries Are They Anyway? Copenhaver V. Rogers And The Attorney's Contract To Prepare A Will In Virginia, Brian Adams Jan 1990

Whose Beneficiaries Are They Anyway? Copenhaver V. Rogers And The Attorney's Contract To Prepare A Will In Virginia, Brian Adams

University of Richmond Law Review

In a case of first impression in the Commonwealth, the Supreme Court of Virginia recently considered whether an attorney may be liable for drafting a will which results in the failure of a testamentary gift to intended beneficiaries. Historically, will beneficiaries had been denied a means of recovery against attorneys due to a lack of privity between the parties. Although Virginia remains a "strict privity' jurisdiction, it recognizes third-party contract beneficiary claims' and has legislatively abrogated the privity requirement in other areas of the law. The plaintiffs in Copenhaver v. Rogers sought to establish a third-party beneficiary claim as the …


Property Rights Of Unmarried Cohabitants In New York: Proposal For Legislative Action Towards A More Equitable Future, Helene Kulczycki Jan 1990

Property Rights Of Unmarried Cohabitants In New York: Proposal For Legislative Action Towards A More Equitable Future, Helene Kulczycki

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.


Preventing Spousal Disinheritance: An Equitable Solution, Scott A. Curnutte Jan 1990

Preventing Spousal Disinheritance: An Equitable Solution, Scott A. Curnutte

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


University Of Richmond Law Review Jan 1990

University Of Richmond Law Review

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.


Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Augmented Estate System: An Overview, J. William Gray Jr. Jan 1990

Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Augmented Estate System: An Overview, J. William Gray Jr.

University of Richmond Law Review

The New Year 1991 will bring in an entirely new system of property rights for surviving spouses in Virginia. As of the end of 1990, the centuries-old concepts of dower and curtesy will disappear from the Code of Virginia (the "Code"). The current will renunciation and spouse's election provisions of estate law also will be scrapped. House Bill No. 808 replaces those historic concepts with an "augmented estate" system modeled after the Uniform Probate Code (the "U.P.C."), but having several features unique to the Commonwealth. This article examines the mechanics of the new system, with particular emphasis on features that …


Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Wills, Trusts, And Estates, J. Rodney Johnson Jan 1990

Annual Survey Of Virginia Law: Wills, Trusts, And Estates, J. Rodney Johnson

University of Richmond Law Review

The 1990 session of the General Assembly enacted legislation dealing with wills, trusts, and estates that added, amended, or repealed a number of sections of the Code of Virginia (the "Code"). In addition to this legislation, there were fifteen cases from the Supreme Court of Virginia, in the year ending June 1, 1990, which involved issues of interest to both the general practitioner and the specialist in wills, trusts, and estates. This article analyzes each of these legislative and judicial developments.


Creditors' Rights Against Nonprobate Assets In Washington: Time For Reform, Thomas R. Andrews Jan 1990

Creditors' Rights Against Nonprobate Assets In Washington: Time For Reform, Thomas R. Andrews

Washington Law Review

The increasing popularity of nonprobate transfers of property at death has created a "revolution" in family wealth transmission. Yet the law on creditors' rights to reach such transfers is badly confused. In some cases, exemptions from creditors' claims are far broader than can be justified. In others, existing creditors' rights are protected but undefined. In still others, it is unclear whether creditors can reach the property at all. There is no procedure for the enforcement of such rights as creditors may have no specified time limit within which claims may be brought. This lack of system invites abuse and is …