that he would look to state inheritance law to answer this question. It was at this point that many lawyers and lawmakers … realized what specialists in probate had long known: state inheritance laws provide strong protection for a decedent … examine whether and how inheritance rights might be extended to domestic partners. In turn, the Real Property, Probate and …

found in the realm of inheritance as a model for imposing restrictions on the unlimited and perpetual transmission of …

purpose-built indicator of the permissiveness of inheritance law and data for 10,245 firms from 32 countries over the 1990 …-2006 interval, we find that stricter inheritance law is associated with lower investment in family firms, while it leaves investment … unaffected in non-family firms. Moreover, as predicted by the model, inheritance law affects investment only in family firms that …