Can someone who never existed inherit under a Will? In the Will of Clifford Stanley Perrin [2026] QSC 247 examines the consequences of online romance fraud and a testamentary gift to an imaginary spouse.
Severance of a testamentary gift based
Probate-Judgment Against Trustee-Revival
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Defendant appealed the trial court’s judgment granting plaintiffs’ motion to revive a judgment they obtained against defendant for actions she took as the successor trustee of the Violet Steinert trust. Where a revival of judgment was
Making the Invisible Visible: Why Conversation Can Move Us from Avoidance to Action
In my last article, I shared an observation: people don’t delay estate planning because they lack information. We delay because, as humans, we tend to prioritize avoiding today’s discomfort over preventing tomorrow’s problems.
In other words, it’s not an
Who Inherits When There’s No Will?
What happens under New York law when a person dies without a Will?
Contrary to popular misconception, their assets do NOT “go to the State.”
When there is no will, and a person dies, the laws of intestacy apply. All
Trusts and Estates, 3rd Edition
The following is the publisher’s description of this book:
Stake’s & Ryan’s Trusts and Estates (3d Ed.) is designed to be a teacher-friendly casebook for a basic course in trusts and estates. What is teacher friendly about it? First,
Private client market report: More revenue, fewer firms
Wills: Firms moving out of volume work
The private client market continues to grow, hitting £3.2bn this year, despite the number of law firms in it falling by 12% over the past five years, according to new research.At the same
Taxes in your practice: US Tax Court holds children liable for gift tax on termination of family trust
Scott E. Vincent is the founding member of Vincent Law, LLC in Kansas City.The U.S. Tax Court recently held residuary beneficiaries of a trust liable for gift taxes upon termination of the trust and established the values of those
When Offshore is Everywhere
When I teach asset protection trusts, my students often imagine that I am talking about activities that occur in faraway places. The word offshore does a great deal of imaginative work: it makes wealth planning sound exotic, remote, and faintly
Irwin Mitchell’s dilemma: repay fees to CoP clients or face litigation
Irwin Mitchell: Decision time
National firm Irwin Mitchell is facing payouts to 261 Court of Protection clients after its trust corporation was found in breach of the self-dealing rule.Her Honour Judge Hilder, the court’s senior judge, said she would
Article: Discretion and Dependency: Revisiting Lawrence Frolik’s Critique of Discretionary Trusts for Disabled Beneficiaries
Elizabeth Valentin (New York School of Law) recently published Discretion and Dependency: Revisiting Lawrence Frolik’s Critique of Discretionary Trusts for Disabled Beneficiaries, 2026. The article is to be featured in University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Volume 87, No. 4,