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Flexibility in Life Insurance Trusts
Sebastian V. Grassi, Jr. (Grassi and Toering, PLC, Troy, Michigan) has recently published his article Drafting a Flexible Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust, 31 ACTEC J. 208 (2005) [link requires ACTEC…
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The Perpetual-Trust Conservation Servitude Interface
Susan Fletcher French (Professor, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law) has recently released her article entitled Perpetual Trusts, Conservation Servitudes, and the Problem of the Future.Here is the…
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Resulting and Constructive Trusts — Which Law Applies?
Adeline Chong (Lecturer in Law, University of Nottingham) has recently published her article entitled The Common Law Choice of Law Rules for Resulting and Constructive Trusts, 54 Int'l & Comp.…
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Inheritor’s Trusts CLE Course
Earlier on this blog, I discussed the relative new concept of the "inheritor's trust" in which a person who hopes to be the beneficiary of a will, typically a child…
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Trust Management Causes du Pont Heir Concern
Alexis du Pont de Bie Sr. is a direct descendant of the du Pont family and is complaining about the mere $3,000 per month he receives as his share of…
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Competition for Trust Funds
Robert H. Sitkoff (Visiting Professor of Law, New York University; Associate Professor of Law, Northwestern University) and Max M. Schanzenbach (Assistant Professor of Law, Northwestern University) have recently published their…
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Most Popular SSRN Downloads in Past 60 Days
Here are the top ten recent (that is, since November 10, 2005) articles downloaded from SSRN which are relevant to Wills, Trusts, and Estates. (The first column shows the rank…
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South Carolina Trust Code
S. Alan Medlin (David W. Robinson Professor of Law, University of South Carolina) has recently published his article entitled The Impact of Significant Substantive Provisions of the South Carolina Trust…
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Oral Trusts in Texas
The following is a summary of the recent Texas case of Ayers v. Mitchell, 167 S.W.3d 924 (Tex. App.—Texarkana 2005, no pet. h.).Mother, Father, Daughter, and Son opened a joint…
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Virginia and the Uniform Trust Code
John E. Donaldson (Ball Professor of Law, Emeritus, College of William and Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law) and Robert T. Danforth (Associate Professor of Law and Alumni Faculty Fellow, Washington…