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The Socio-Economics Of The Federal Estate Tax: Why Do So Many People Hate (Or Love) This Centenarian?, Richard Gershon
The Socio-Economics Of The Federal Estate Tax: Why Do So Many People Hate (Or Love) This Centenarian?, Richard Gershon
Akron Law Review
The federal estate tax has faced many detractors during its almost 100 years of existence. While the tax affects only a very small percentage of estates, many have called for its repeal. This Essay discusses the socio-economic reasons why the estate tax should be maintained. The tax is an important source of revenue, and it helps to rectify the growing issue of wealth and income inequality in the United States.
Contractual Wills: Misplaced Marital Loyalties: Eunsuing Litigation: Increased Federal Estate Taxes, Addison E. Dewey
Contractual Wills: Misplaced Marital Loyalties: Eunsuing Litigation: Increased Federal Estate Taxes, Addison E. Dewey
Akron Law Review
A MYSTIFYING PLETHORA OF RECENT CASES indicates that husbands and and wives seem to be placing much more euphoric confidence in the judicial enforcement of their contractual wills than they do in unbargained-for assurances by the spouse that the provisions of such will never be changed. Many cases indicate that married couples feel that while mutual trust and confidence may be a revered tradition resulting from matrimonial bliss, they prefer to superimpose upon testamentary dispositions of their estates the common law concept of contract as an agreement which the courts will enforce. The repeated pattern of the various cases is …