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Fraud On The Widow’S Share, W. D. Macdonald Jan 1960

Fraud On The Widow’S Share, W. D. Macdonald

Michigan Legal Studies Series

This study seeks the answer to a troublesome question: What should be done about gratuitous inter vivos transfers in alleged "evasion" of the widow's statutory share? My thesis is that the statutory share should be replaced by the type of decedent's family maintenance legislation found in the British Commonwealth, and that this legislation should be buttressed with anti-evasion provisions. Inter vivos "evasions" seem to be a permanent and increasingly serious concomitant of our forced share system. Part I, dealing with matters of policy, explores the chief aggravating factors. These factors include the high rate of remarriage, which induces transfers to …


Family Responsibilty Under The American Poor Laws: Ii, Daniel R. Mandelker Mar 1956

Family Responsibilty Under The American Poor Laws: Ii, Daniel R. Mandelker

Michigan Law Review

No substantive statutory provision fulfills the purpose for which it was enacted unless fair and efficient procedures are provided for its enforcement. Under the Elizabethan family responsibility law, enforcement was confined to the parish justices of the peace, who at that time exercised both administrative and judicial functions. The blending of administrative and judicial functions no longer being the rule in American local government, practically all of the American family responsibility statutes provide for some judicial procedure by which the support duty may be enforced. The basic issue with which the courts have been concerned in applying these statutory remedies …


Problemas De Derecho Positivo, José D. Peñate Jan 1953

Problemas De Derecho Positivo, José D. Peñate

Mario Diaz Cruz Pamphlets

No abstract provided.


Study In Special Findings Of Facts And Conclusions Of Law, Francis Joseph Vurpillat Jan 1921

Study In Special Findings Of Facts And Conclusions Of Law, Francis Joseph Vurpillat

Journal Articles

These findings of fact and conclusions of law were prepared and filed by the writer as Judge of the Starke Circuit Court of Indiana, in the case of Friebe vs. Elder etl al. A new trial as of right was immediately granted the plaintiff under the statute directing the trial court to grant a new trial without cause, upon the filing of the application and bond by the aggrieved party. A special judge tried the case anew and filed substantially the same findings and conclusions. From the second judgment the case was appealed to the Appellate Court of Indiana and …


Recent Important Decisions Jan 1914

Recent Important Decisions

Michigan Law Review

A collection of recent important court decisions.