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Trust
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California Trust, Estate & Probate Litigation
Capacity Issues: Different types of capacity required for California Trusts vs. Wills
California Wills and Trusts are not created equal. In this video, we describe the basic differences between the mental capacity required for California Will creation and the mental capacity required…
New York Attorney Malpractice Blog
A Very Strange Case of Legal Malpractice and Estates
Chiantella v Kroll ;2011 NY Slip Op 32140(U) ;July 19, 2011 ;Sup Ct, Nassau County; Docket Number: 019337/07; Judge: Jeffrey S. Brown is a case that seems strange on all…
PropertyProf Blog
Dagan on Restitution and Relationships
By propertyprof
Hanoch Dagan (Tel Aviv) has posted Restitution and Relationships (Boston University Law Review) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:This Essay examines how restitutionary doctrines protect the integrity of certain types of…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Lawyers can establish trust with their target audience online
Stowe Boyd, a recognized authority on social tools and their impact on media, business, and society, penned an interesting piece Sunday entitled Trust is Trust, Online and Off. Boyd cited a recent…
The Faculty Lounge
The Lone Star State Might Become the Lone Trust State
Texas House Bill 372 died quietly at the end of the legislative session last month. The proposed bill would have modifed Texas Property Code § 112.036, -- essentially the common…
Family Law Prof Blog
Gerzog: “The New Super-Charged PAT (Power of Appointment Trust)”
By Family Law
Wendy Gerzog (Univ. of Baltimore School of Law) has posted "The New Super-Charged PAT (Power of Appointment Trust)" (forthcoming Houston L. Rev.) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:This article proposes…
PropertyProf Blog
It’s Alive! The Rule Against Perpetuities in the News
By propertyprof
The Rule Against Perpetuities has come to Lexington, KY. The RAP has finally ended a local girl's lengthy wait to get a share of a family fortune that's long been…
The New York Probate Litigation Blog
We Should All Have This Problem!
TheNew York Times has reported that many wealthy Americans seem reluctant to take advantage of the new tax breaks which Congress recently afforded them should they elect to set up…
The Faculty Lounge
Remote Descendants and the Real Beneficiaries of Long-Term Trusts
Earlier this week, Wall Street Journal blogger Robert Frank wrote (here) in "Shutting Out the Kids From the Family Fortune" about a wealthy man who left his fortune in trust.…
Toronto Estate Law Blog
Trust Residency – The Test Modified
Sheila Crummey of McMillan LLP spoke on this topic at the 2011 Six-Minute Estates Lawyer. She noted that until the Garron decision, practitioners relied upon the Thibodeau decision for the proposition…