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Full-Text Articles in Nonprofit Organizations Law
Dispositions Of Property To Unincorporated Non-Profit Associations, Harold A.J. Ford
Dispositions Of Property To Unincorporated Non-Profit Associations, Harold A.J. Ford
Michigan Law Review
It now becomes necessary to examine the cases in which the disposition could not be treated as one to the existing members. This treatment will disclose that some courts have been prepared to regard some dispositions to associations as being for the purposes of the association. The only way in which property may be devoted to a purpose without conferring beneficial interests on particular individuals is by a trust. Accordingly in many instances the disposition takes effect as a trust.
Dispositions Of Property To Unincorporated Non-Profit Associations, Harold A.J. Ford
Dispositions Of Property To Unincorporated Non-Profit Associations, Harold A.J. Ford
Michigan Law Review
The aim of this article is to examine the ways in which courts in common law countries have given this assistance and the problems they have encountered in regard to property transactions.
Taxation - Federal Estate Tax - Deductibility Of Contingent Bequests To Charity, Jack G. Armstrong S.Ed.
Taxation - Federal Estate Tax - Deductibility Of Contingent Bequests To Charity, Jack G. Armstrong S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
Testator bequeathed a remainder interest to charitable organizations which was contingent upon her sister, age eighty-two, predeceasing two other women, ages sixty-seven and sixty-eight. The Commissioner disallowed a deduction for this bequest on the ground that it was not certain that charity would receive any benefit. In the district court the parties stipulated that there was an eleven to one chance that charity would receive the bequest. On the basis of this stipulation the district court found for the taxpayer. On appeal, held, reversed. In order for a deduction to be allowed the possibility that charity will not take …