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The slayer rule, in the U.S. law of inheritance, stops a person inheriting property from a person they murdered (so that, for example, ...
Slayer rule; Laughing heir; ... Another modification to the common law of lapse is the elimination of the "no residue of a residue" rule where multiple beneficiaries ...
The Uniform Probate Code (commonly abbreviated UPC) is a uniform act drafted by National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) governing inheritance and the decedents' estates in the United States.
In trust law, a constructive trust is an equitable remedy imposed by a court to benefit a party that has been wrongfully deprived of its rights due to either a person obtaining or holding a legal property right which they should not possess due to unjust enrichment or interference, or due to a breach of fiduciary duty, which is intercausative with unjust enrichment and/or property interference.
Forced heirship is a form of testate partible inheritance which mandates how the deceased's estate is to be disposed and which tends to guarantee an inheritance for family of the deceased.
The modern rule reflected in the UTC permits co-trustees to act by majority vote. [28] Where a co-trustee is unable to be actively involved in the management of the trust due to age or illness, the remaining co-trustees can generally act on behalf of the trust "to achieve the purposes of the trust or to avoid injury to the trust property."
Christie had trouble raising money from small-dollar donors when he ran in 2016. Now he would need 40,000 unique donors to make the August debate stage.
A power of appointment is a term most frequently used in the law of wills to describe the ability of the testator (the person writing the will) to select a person who will be given the authority to dispose of certain property under the will.