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Kekuatan Hukum Perjanjian Pengikatan Jual Beli Atas Satuan Rumah Susun Terhadap Developer Yang Melakukan Wanprestasi (Studi Putusan-Putusan Pengadilan), Zipora .

Indonesian Notary

Penelitian ini membahas mengenai putusan-putusan pengadilan yang menentukan kekuatan hukum terhadap Perjanjian Pengikatan Jual Beli (PPJB) atas satuan rumah susun dalam hal developer melakukan wanprestasi berdasarkan studi putusan-putusan pengadilan. Mengingat adanya ketentuan dalam Undang-Undang Nomor 20 Tahun 2011 tentang Rumah Susun (UU Rumah Susun) yang memberikan rumusannya bersifat fakultatif sehingga developer dapat membuat PPJB di bawah tangan. Diikuti dengan lahirnya Peraturan Menteri Pekerjaan Umum dan Perumahan Rakyat (Permen PUPR) Nomor 11 Tahun 2019 tentang Sistem Perjanjian Pendahuluan Jual Beli Rumah yang di dalamnya mengatur bahwa PPJB dibuat dan ditandatangani di hadapan Notaris. Adapun permasalahan yang diangkat dalam penelitian ini meliputi …

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ACTEC Law Journal

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The Uniform Probate Code's New Intestacy And Class Gift Provisions, Mary Louise Fellows, Thomas P. Gallanis

ACTEC Law Journal

Law and society inextricably link family and wealth transmission. An individual’s right to inherit from an intestate decedent depends on whether the individual has a legally recognized familial relationship to the decedent. Similarly, when a class gift in a donative document uses a term of relationship to identify the class members, an individual’s right to share in the gift depends on the legal recognition of the relationship. The enactment of the 2017 Uniform Parentage Act required a revision of the intestacy and class gift provisions of the Uniform Probate Code.

We were the reporters, or principal drafters, of the UPC …

Dead Men (And Women) Should Tell Tales: Narrative, Intent, And The Construction Of Wills, Karen J. Sneddon

ACTEC Law Journal

Intent is a foundational principle that is referenced in many varied aspects of succession. This article will focus on the role of intent in will construction proceedings where intent is referred to as the “touchstone” and “pole star.” When an issue arises as to the meaning of a provision in a will admitted to probate, the probate court must undertake a construction proceeding. This article posits that a will naturally forms a narrative that courts use when interpreting and construing the language of the will. This natural narrative form and tendency for courts to reference narrative during construction proceedings can …

The Failures And The Future Of Private Foundation Governance, Zoey F. Orol

ACTEC Law Journal

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The Domains Of Loyalty: Relationships Between Fiduciary Obligation And Intrinsic Motivation, Deborah A. Demott

William & Mary Law Review

Recent scholarly inquiry into fiduciary law predominantly focuses on whether the subject is a coherent field and not a piecemeal assortment of doctrinal detail. This Article looks to the future and to relationships between the formal domain of fiduciary law and other factors that shape conduct. These include intrinsic motivation, markets for professional services, and forces like the operation of reputation. The Article demonstrates that looking across domains, from the legal to the extralegal, casts in sharp relief the reasons why fiduciary law is distinctive. These stem from the specific qualities of relationships to which fiduciary law applies, as well …

Keeping Current - Probate [Notes], Claire Hargrove, Paula Moore, Kerri G. Nipp, William P. Lapiana

Articles & Chapters

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Performers And Portrayers (Reviewing Shelly Kreiczer-Levy & Ronit Donyets-Kedar, Better Left Forgotten : An Argument Against Treating Some Social Media And Digital Assets As Inheritance In An Era Of Platform Power, 84 Brook. L. Rev. 703 (2019)), Katheleen Guzman

Other Faculty Publications

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Study On The Compliance Of Islamic Investment Funds With The Provisions Of Islamic Law (Sharia) Within The Framework Of French Legislation, Rasha Hattab

UAEU Law Journal

The religious nature of Islamic investment funds distinguishes them from the traditional ones by making their assets credible for Muslims investors on the one hand, and, on the other hand, obligating the Investment Services Providers to reassure investors about their effective religious compliance which constitutes a real challenge in the Occidental Countries. In this study, dedicated to the control of compliance of the Islamic Investment Funds with the Islamic Sharia in France, we will devote the first section for discussing the means of this control and simultaneously the role that the Sharia Supervisory Board could play in ensuring its effectiveness. …

The Law Of Trusts And Collective Action: A New Approach To Property Deadlocks, Amnon Lehavi

University of Cincinnati Law Review

This Article identifies the key role that trust law can play in resolving collective action problems pertaining to assets with multiple stakeholders. Devising a multi-beneficiary trust may serve as an effective institutional alternative, when the direct governance of an asset by its co-owners reaches a deadlock, and the partition of the asset among them is either impractical or inefficient.

The Article examines various case studies in which property may become deadlocked among multiple stakeholders, featuring either commons or anticommons problems. In the case of land, the need to assemble land from multiple owners for (re)development, or the task of governing …

How To Sue An Asue? Closing The Racial Wealth Gap Through The Transplantation Of A Cultural Institution, Cyril A.L. Heron

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

Asues, academically known as Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (or ROSCAs for short), are informal cultural institutions that are prominent in developing countries across the globe. Their utilization in those countries provide rural and ostracized communities with a means to save money and invest in the community simultaneously. Adoption of the asue into the United States could serve as the foundation by which to close the racial wealth gap. Notwithstanding the benefits, wholesale adoption of any asue model runs the risk of cultural rejection because the institution is foreign to the African American community.

Drawing upon principles of cultural and …

Recent Amendments To The Interim Real Estate Registery Of The Emirate Of Dubai (Its Effects On The Legal Characterization In Off Plan Sale Contracts)

UAEU Law Journal

RECENT AMENDMENTS TO THE INTERIM REAL ESTATE REGISTERY OF THE EMIRATE OF DUBAI (ITS EFFECTS ON THE LEGAL CHARACTERIZATION

IN OFF PLAN SALE CONTRACTS)

Dr. Yasser Al-Iftihat

Associate Professor of Civil Law College of Law, Al Ghurair University, United Arab Emirates

Abstract: The research discusses the regulations of selling off plan real estate units as stated on the Emirate of Dubai by the legislator who has regulated and imposed the subsequent amendments to the law in order to face the most significant challenge in the field of real estate development in the Emirate of Dubai, where distinguishes the real estate …

Erisa Defined Benefit Plans Are Not "Trust"Worthy, Stewart E. Sterk

William & Mary Law Review Online

What role does the common law of trusts play in policing investment decisions made in the context of a defined-benefit retirement plan governed by ERISA? That issue, among others, divided the Supreme Court this past term in Thole v. U.S. Bank N.A. The Court’s majority decided the case by holding that plan beneficiaries had no Article III standing to challenge allegedly self-interested investment decisions made by the plan’s sponsor and administrator. Because the Court grounded its decision in constitutional standing, Congress would be powerless to confer standing on plan beneficiaries without also amending the substantive rights accorded those beneficiaries. This …

“Champion Man-Hater Of All Time”: Feminism, Insanity, And Property Rights In 1940s America, Magdalene Zier

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

Legions of law students in property or trusts and estates courses have studied the will dispute, In re Strittmater’s Estate. The cases, casebooks, and treatises that cite Strittmater present the 1947 decision from New Jersey’s highest court as a model of the “insane delusion” doctrine. Readers learn that snubbed relatives successfully invalidated Louisa Strittmater’s will, which left her estate to the Equal Rights Amendment campaign, by convincing the court that her radical views on gender equality amounted to insanity and, thus, testamentary incapacity. By failing to provide any commentary or context on this overt sexism, these sources affirm the …

The Role Of Trust Law Principles In Defining Public Trust Duties For Natural Resources, John C. Dernbach

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Public trusts for natural resources incorporate both limits and duties on governments in their stewardship of those natural resources. They exist in every state in the United States—in constitutional provisions, statutes, and in common law. Yet the law recognizing public trusts for natural resources may contain only the most basic provisions—often just a sentence or two. The purpose and terms of these public trusts certainly answer some questions about the limits and duties of trustees, but they do not answer all questions. When questions arise that the body of law creating or recognizing a public trust for natural resources does …

Wills Formalities In Post-Pandemic World: A Research Agenda, Bridget J. Crawford, Kelly Purser, Tina Cockburn

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

The COVID-19 global pandemic has brought new focus to human mortality. The virus has reminded many people that they need to have a valid will or otherwise make plans for the effective transmission of their property on death. Yet stay-at-home orders and social distancing recommendations make it difficult or impossible to comply with the traditional rules for validly executing wills. Across most common law jurisdictions, the traditional requirements call for two witnesses in the physical presence of the testator. Because of the practical difficulties of safely executing documents during the pandemic with witnesses assembled in physical proximity, many jurisdictions internationally …

Wills & Trusts, Gerry W. Beyer

SMU Annual Texas Survey

This article is a survey of the relevant developments in law of wills and trusts from December 1, 2019, through November 30, 2020. The article focuses on law likely to be influential to Texas practitioners.

The Unconstitutionality Of State Bans On Marriage Between First Cousins, Rachel Frommer

Cardozo Law Review de•novo

A majority of jurisdictions in the United States severely limit or prohibit the right of first cousins to marry, cohabit, or have intercourse. Yet, unlike regulation of other relationships within close degrees of consanguinity, for instance between parents and children or siblings, these statutes are relatively recent additions to the marriage regulation landscape. These bans are unsupported by the commonly-cited concerns of harmful genetic or societal consequences. First cousin-marriages are, instead, popular and permitted in much of the world—as they once were in the United States. This Article demonstrates that the prohibitions against first-cousin marriages directly contravene right-to-marry jurisprudence and …

Heirs Property In Georgia: Common Issues, Current State Of The Law, And Further Solutions, Caitlin Henderson

Georgia Law Review

In Georgia, real property passes through an intestate estate
in the form of heirs property. Under this system, heirs share
ownership of the property as tenants in common. This form of
ownership poses several obstacles to realizing the land’s full
potential and, in certain circumstances, courts will partition
the property in forced sales or will physically divide the
property among the heirs. Heirs property and its accompanying
problems are particularly common in Georgia due to strict
policies concerning will execution formalities. Georgia and the
U.S. Congress have attempted to cure the problems associated
with heirs property through the adoption of …

These Are A Few Of My Least Favorite Things, Richard C. Ausness

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

The Uniform Probate Code ("UPC") can trace its origins back to a Model Probate Code promulgated by the American Bar Association ("ABA")'s section on Real Property, Probate, and Trust Law in 1946. In 1962, the Section on Real Property, Probate, and Trust Law, along with National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws began work on what was to become the original UPC. The National Conferences and the ABA's House of Delegates approved the UPC in 1969.

The 1969 UPC was an attempt to modernize some of the traditional rules and provide a degree of uniformity for the American law …