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Real Property Issues In Family Law: An Annotated Bibliography, Allen Roston
Real Property Issues In Family Law: An Annotated Bibliography, Allen Roston
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What Is The Optimal Basis For Imposing Government Liens?, Randall K. Johnson
What Is The Optimal Basis For Imposing Government Liens?, Randall K. Johnson
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By presenting a detailed case study, which focuses on who gets subjected to government liens, this essay helps U.S. states to make more informed decisions. It seeks to do so by critically assessing Illinois’ historic approach to lien imposition and enforcement, in part, because this state had the most forced sales of real property in recent years. In addition, Illinois also generated the largest amount of related economic losses in the U.S. during that same time period. This state did so despite adhering to the old majority rule for turning over surplus value from such sales. That rule required creditors …
Tenancy By The Entirety Property And Transfers To Trusts, Julie M. Cheslik
Tenancy By The Entirety Property And Transfers To Trusts, Julie M. Cheslik
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Lawyers practicing in the area of matrimonial law encounter the structuring of property transactions as their clients contemplate marriage, during the marriage, and upon dissolution of the marriage. At all three periods in the life of a marriage, whether for creditor asset protection purposes, estate planning purposes, or dissolution purposes, whether and how to deviate from the state's default property laws is of utmost concern for the matrimonial lawyer. Of special concern is how default laws intended to protect the spouses' marital estate from creditors - including the tenancy by the entirety estate - may be implicated or abrogated by …