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The Legal Effect Of Marital Separation Agreements Upon Community Property Status: Is It Time To Amend The Constitutional Definition Of Wife's Separate Property., Teresa A. Hunter
The Legal Effect Of Marital Separation Agreements Upon Community Property Status: Is It Time To Amend The Constitutional Definition Of Wife's Separate Property., Teresa A. Hunter
St. Mary's Law Journal
The present constitutional definition of married women’s separate property serves to protect the wife’s property rights and to preserve the community property system in Texas. However, the policy reasons for the constitutional definition no longer apply, since there is no present danger of the legislature reducing the property rights of married women or abandoning the community property system. Further, the needs and customs of the people of Texas have changed since the adoption of the original Texas Constitution in 1845. Today, it is estimated that thirty percent of couples who marry in the United States eventually divorce and sixty percent …
The Present Status Of Compensation By Foreign States For The Taking Of Alien-Owned Property, Mark K. Neville, Jr.
The Present Status Of Compensation By Foreign States For The Taking Of Alien-Owned Property, Mark K. Neville, Jr.
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Perhaps no other exercise of the prerogatives of national sovereignty during the past two decades has proven so divisive to the community of nations or created quite as much uncertainty in international commerce as the taking of an alien investor's property by host States. Certainly these takings have contributed mightily to the intensity of the confrontation between the Third World and the developed nations. As a result of these confrontations the line has been clearly drawn between the industrialized nations and those developing countries of the Third World that subscribe to the precepts of the New International Economic Order, an …
Family Law And The Pennsylvania Equal Rights Amendment, Albert Momjian
Family Law And The Pennsylvania Equal Rights Amendment, Albert Momjian
Villanova Law Review
No abstract provided.
Exclusionary Land Use Controls And The Takings Issue, Robert R. Wright
Exclusionary Land Use Controls And The Takings Issue, Robert R. Wright
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Maintenance And Repairs Of Cooperative Apartments: Rights And Remedies Of Tenant-Shareholders, Damon R. Maher
Maintenance And Repairs Of Cooperative Apartments: Rights And Remedies Of Tenant-Shareholders, Damon R. Maher
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This comment examines the duties landlords have to maintain a habitable dwelling for tenants. It also recounts the various remedies tenants have when their landlord fails to meet its duties regarding habitability. The comment then goes on analyze whether or not these remedies are available to leaseholders of a cooperative apartment against the cooperative corporation that owns the apartment. In cases when those remedies are not available, this comment will recount what remedies are available.
The Regulation Of Rental Apartment Conversions, Constance W. Cranch
The Regulation Of Rental Apartment Conversions, Constance W. Cranch
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This Comment examines the increasing rate of apartment buildings being converted to condominiums and cooperatives. It take a critical look at the the benefits and drawbacks of conversion for both landlords and tenants. Finally, the Comment argues that legislation should be passed in order to ensure that landlords can reap the benefits of conversion while seeing that the hardship on low-income and elderly tenants is mitigated.
Section 6104(D) Of The Pennsylvania Rule Against Perpetuities: The Validity And Effect Of The Retroactive Application Of Property And Probate Law Reform, Leonard Levin
Villanova Law Review
No abstract provided.
A Conflict Over Land, Francis E. Ackerman
A Conflict Over Land, Francis E. Ackerman
American Indian Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Estate Tax Marital Deduction, Harold Dubroff, Douglas A. Kahn
The Estate Tax Marital Deduction, Harold Dubroff, Douglas A. Kahn
Articles
The estate tax marital deduction, section 2056 of the Internal Revenue Code, was enacted in 1948, along with the split-income provisions of the income tax law and the marital deduction and split-gift provisions of the gift tax law. The purpose was to give married residents of common law states approximately the same federal tax advantages that were available to married residents of community property states. Ordinarily, upon the death of a married resident of a community property state, only one-half of the community property is taxed in the decedent's estate. Section 2056 achieves approximately the same result for married residents …