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Fiduciary Administration-Power Of Court To Authorize Inter Vivos Distribution From Incompetent's Estate, Robert C. Bonges
Fiduciary Administration-Power Of Court To Authorize Inter Vivos Distribution From Incompetent's Estate, Robert C. Bonges
Michigan Law Review
The guardians of an eighty-six-year-old incompetent multi-millionaire petitioned for authorization to give a portion of the ward's assets to his children and grandchildren. It was not suggested that the proposed beneficiaries were currently in need of funds, but rather the sole purpose of the inter vivas distribution was to minimize the impact of federal estate taxes on the ward's estate at his death. It was alleged and proved, however, that the proposed distribution would follow a plan which accorded substantially with the terms of the ward's will, and which the ward presumably would have followed himself, had he remained competent …
Executors And Administrators-Sale Of Realty In The Estate-Better Price As Reason For Permitting Sale Under "Best Interests Of The Estate" Provision, William J. Bogaard
Executors And Administrators-Sale Of Realty In The Estate-Better Price As Reason For Permitting Sale Under "Best Interests Of The Estate" Provision, William J. Bogaard
Michigan Law Review
Pursuant to a Missouri statute permitting sale of real property for any purpose in the best interests of the estate, administrator filed a petition for power to sell realty in the estate of the decedent for the reason, inter alia, that a better price could be obtained at a private sale than at a judicial sale resulting from a suit for partition. The plaintiff heir's subsequent bill for partition of the real estate was dismissed by the trial court, which found that the administrator's petition for power to sell had conferred jurisdiction of the property on the probate court. …
Voluntary Payments To Widows Of Corporate Executives: Gifts Or Income?, Paul A. Rothman
Voluntary Payments To Widows Of Corporate Executives: Gifts Or Income?, Paul A. Rothman
Michigan Law Review
The solicitude of hardhearted corporations for the widows of corporate executives has given rise to an abundance of cases involving the question whether payments to these widows constitute gifts or income. In the cases to be considered in this comment, payments are made by the corporation to the decedent's widow on a purely voluntary basis. In the typical situation, the board of directors adopts a resolution eulogizing the decedent and authorizing payments to his widow in recognition of his long and faithful service. In most cases, these payments are measured by the decedent's salary and continue for periods ranging from …
International Law-Treaties-Inheritance Rights Of Residents Of Yugoslavia, Charles F. Niemeth
International Law-Treaties-Inheritance Rights Of Residents Of Yugoslavia, Charles F. Niemeth
Michigan Law Review
All the heirs at law of a Pennsylvania resident who died intestate resided in Yugoslavia. The Orphans' Court found that the distributees would not have the actual benefit, use, enjoyment or control of their intestate shares. In accordance with a state statute providing for such contingency,1 the funds were ordered paid, without escheat, into the state treasury. On appeal, held, affirmed, one judge dissenting. Because the statute is custodial rather than confiscatory, it is not repugnant to the most-favored-nation clause of the treaty between the United States and Yugoslavia which provides for reciprocal rights of inheritance between citizens of …
Trusts-Termination-Proof Of Impossibilty Of Issue, Charles F. Niemeth
Trusts-Termination-Proof Of Impossibilty Of Issue, Charles F. Niemeth
Michigan Law Review
The surviving trustee of a testamentary trust petitioned the probate court for authority to terminate and distribute the trust in accordance with a compromise agreement between all interested persons apart from the possible issue of one beneficiary. Undisputed medical testimony was received that neither the beneficiary nor his wife were capable of procreation. On a question of law certified to the New Hampshire Supreme Court, held, remanded with instructions to terminate and distribute the corpus of the trust. Termination of a trust in prejudice of the interests of possible future issue is permissible when the possibility of such issue …
Trusts-Validity Of Spendthrift Trust, Charles K. Dayton
Trusts-Validity Of Spendthrift Trust, Charles K. Dayton
Michigan Law Review
Defendant, a judgment debtor, was one of three beneficiaries of a trust agreement which granted him an income of 1,500 dollars annually until his daughter reached the age of twenty-five, at which time he was to receive one-third of the corpus. The trust agreement contained a clause prohibiting voluntary or involuntary alienation of the beneficiary's interest in the income or principal of the 91,000 dollar trust estate. Plaintiff-creditor's attempt to apply the defendant's right to receive annual income toward the satisfaction of a 41,000 dollar judgment was denied by the trial court and the Ohio court of appeals on the …