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Charitable Trusts
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Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Challenges to James Brown’s Will Continue
Eight years after James Brown's death, the charitable trust he created has yet to serve its intended purpose. Brown left $2 million to the I Feel Good Trust to provide…
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Charities Challenge Trust
Siv Ljungwe died in 2010 and is remembered as a Fulbright scholar, dedicated teacher, avid outdoorswomen, and triathlete. Ljungwe also left behind a fortune worth millions of dollars, amassed over…
Legal Profession Blog
Donation To Christian Camp Not Unethical
An Illinois Hearing Board (over a dissent) has found no misconduct in a case where an attorney was charged with a conflict of interest in drafting a gift to a…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Chester on Ipswich Grammar School and Dead Hand Control
Ronald Chester (New England) has posted The Life and Death of the Ipswich Grammar School: Is Enduring Dead Hand Control Possible?, ACTEC Journal (forthcoming). Here is the abstract:This article examines…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
WSJ on Donor Advised Funds
On Friday the Wall Street Journal published online an article titled Tax-Smart Philanthropy Made Easy: Many Donors Should Consider a "Charitable Gift Trust" or "Donor Advised Fund". The article documents…
Florida Probate & Trust Litigation Blog
The Corcoran Gallery of Art’s trustees expertly manage the public advocacy facet of their case in support of requested “cy pres” court ruling
A lot's changed in the over 100 years since William Corcoran executed a "Deed of Trust" in 1869, establishing the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Falling victim to competitive market pressures,…
Land Use Prof Blog
Conservation easements and charitable trusts
There has long been debate fluttering around about whether conservation easements are charitable trusts. A recent opinion from Wyoming has me thinking about charitable trusts and conservation easements from a different…
ContractsProf Blog
The $250 Million Gift that Wasn’t
The New York Times reports here that a $250 million gift, pledged to Centre College over the summer has now evaporated.In July, Centre College announced that the A. Eugene Brockman Charitable Trust had…
Land Use Prof Blog
Agricultural Conservation Easements and Charitable Trusts
An interesting case from Maryland this summer chimed on a debate going on in the conservation easement literature about the extent to to which charitable trust law applies to conservation…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Delaware AG Alleges Mismanagement of Charitable duPont Trust
As reported in The Washington Post, a $4 billion charitable trust created by the late Alfred I. duPont is the subject of scrutiny by the Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden. …