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Nonestate Planning, Thomas F. Shaffer

Journal Articles

This article proposes and explains a will form for the young and promising, but presently impecunious, Calvin Knox. He is called a "junior executive" by appliance dealers, and his property is called an "estate" by his flatterers. He is really a middle-class, white-collar worker; and what he really has is a nonestate of children and debts.

This article is intended to stimulate argument. Nobody ever argues about Calvin Knox's nonestate. Nobody ever 'discusses' him in public. Practicing lawyers who can afford to write about "estate planning" pay no attention to him. Bar association panels and slick-paper journals leave him to …