This article previews some of the author's arguments concerning more effective taxation of intergenerational wealth transmission that were later delineated in his award-winning book "Inheritance, Wealth, and Society (Indiana University Press 1982)". The author uses historical and philosophical...

The author, who serves as Chair of the Real Property, Probate and Trusts Section's Bioethics Committee (American Bar Association) critically analyzes the tests set forth by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in allowing intestate succession by posthumously conceived children in certain...