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Full-Text Articles in Law
15th Annual Seminar On Estate Planning, Office Of Continuing Legal Education At The University Of Kentucky College Of Law, Mark T. Macdonald, Gerald P. Johnston, Edward A. Rothschild, Turney P. Berry, Norvie L. Lay, Barry Bond, F. Gerald Greenwell, Marjorie Bassler, Mary Helen Myles, Valerie T. Mayer
15th Annual Seminar On Estate Planning, Office Of Continuing Legal Education At The University Of Kentucky College Of Law, Mark T. Macdonald, Gerald P. Johnston, Edward A. Rothschild, Turney P. Berry, Norvie L. Lay, Barry Bond, F. Gerald Greenwell, Marjorie Bassler, Mary Helen Myles, Valerie T. Mayer
Continuing Legal Education Materials
Outlines of speakers' presentations from the 15th Annual Seminar on Estate Planning held by UK/CLE on July 15-16, 1988.
Family Protection Under Kentucky's Inheritance Laws: Is The Family Really Protected?, Carolyn S. Bratt
Family Protection Under Kentucky's Inheritance Laws: Is The Family Really Protected?, Carolyn S. Bratt
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
Courts and legislatures always have granted widows some protection from the economic hardships that their husbands' deaths cause. At the earliest common law, a surviving wife was entitled to dower in the form of a right to remain in her husband's home along with the other heirs after the husband's death. Today, the states have enacted a variety of statutory devices that provide protection for families who might otherwise experience financial hardship upon the death of a spouse or parent. The older types of statutory safeguards take the form of homestead and personal property exemptions. Typically, the probate homestead exemption …