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Intellectual Heirs Property: Why Certain Musical Copyrights Should Be Included In The Heirs Property Reform Movement, Austin Weatherly
Intellectual Heirs Property: Why Certain Musical Copyrights Should Be Included In The Heirs Property Reform Movement, Austin Weatherly
Journal of Intellectual Property Law
The modern heirs property reform movement seeks to ameliorate the issues caused by the procedures governing the inheritance of real property from landowners who die intestate. This procedure can have a negative impact on heirs and the value of their inherited property. The reform movement, as it stands, only seeks to resolve the issues created by these procedures in the real property context. The rhetorical basis for the modern heirs property reform movement largely focuses on closing the racial wealth gap in the United States and slowing the wealth bleed from one black generation to the next. Many of the …
Planned Parenthood: Adult Adoption And The Right Of Adoptees To Inherit, Richard C. Ausness
Planned Parenthood: Adult Adoption And The Right Of Adoptees To Inherit, Richard C. Ausness
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
This Article is concerned with the effect of adult adoptions on the inheritance rights (in the broad sense of that term) of adult adoptees. The Article contends many adult adoption statutes assume the existence of a parent-child relationship in which the adopter is the “parent” and the adoptee is a “child” even though this is not true of all adult adoption cases. In addition, legislatures and courts frequently fail to differentiate between “quasi-familial” adoptions and “strategic” adoptions, particularly where inheritance rights are concerned.
Planned Parenthood: Adult Adoption And The Right Of Adoptees To Inherit, Richard C. Ausness
Planned Parenthood: Adult Adoption And The Right Of Adoptees To Inherit, Richard C. Ausness
ACTEC Law Journal
This Article is concerned with the effect of adult adoptions on the inheritance rights (in the broad sense of that term) of adult adoptees. The Article contends many adult adoption statutes assume the existence of a parent-child relationship in which the adopter is the "parent" and the adoptee is a "child" even though this is not true of all adult adoption cases. In addition, legislatures and courts frequently fail to differentiate between "quasi-familial" adoptions and "strategic" adoptions, particularly where inheritance rights are concerned.
Killers Shouldn't Inherit From Their Victims-Or Should They?, Carla Spivack
Killers Shouldn't Inherit From Their Victims-Or Should They?, Carla Spivack
Georgia Law Review
This Article questions, for the first time, the equitable and policy basis of Slayer Rules, the rules that bar killers from inheriting from those they kill. It shows that killings that involve inheritance usually occur as a result of domestic abuse or severe mental illness, and argues that, because the legal and social service systems offer little help to those trapped in abusive relationships or those disabled by mental illness, it is not justifiable for those systems to deprive the killer of an inheritance when he or she takes the only means of escape available.
The New Arkansas Inheritance Laws: A Step Into The Present With An Eye To The Future, Robert R. Wright
The New Arkansas Inheritance Laws: A Step Into The Present With An Eye To The Future, Robert R. Wright
Faculty Scholarship
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Deeds - Future Interests - Right Of Murderer To Acquire Property By Operation Of Condition Subsequent That Property Shall Revert On Grantee's Death, Russel T. Walker
Deeds - Future Interests - Right Of Murderer To Acquire Property By Operation Of Condition Subsequent That Property Shall Revert On Grantee's Death, Russel T. Walker
Michigan Law Review
Grantor, who had been adjudged insane, conveyed a farm to grantee on condition that the farm would revert to grantor should grantee predecease him. Grantee was killed under circumstances tending to show that he was killed by grantor, who was insane at the time of the death of the grantee. Held, title to the land, under the deed, reverted to grantor upon grantee's death, in spite of the general rule in Missouri that a murderer cannot inherit realty from his victim. Eisenhardt v. Siegel, (Mo. 1938) 119 S. W. (2d) 810.