their nearest and dearest. In earlier work, I have argued that American inheritance law is trapped in an outdated family …

This symposium paper, originally presented at the September 19, 2008 NYU Tax Law Review Symposium on inheritance …." The paper draws on historical debates over inheritance law to identify and examine three rather different ideals of the … with family life in such a way as to oppose the taxation of inheritance, there are equally plausible interpretations …

States and Great Britain. One of the recurring questions of inheritance law is how to increase the chances of reaching the … policy threads in the fabric of inheritance law …

most startling characteristic of Chinese inheritance law is its willingness to invoke judicial review of an heir’s conduct …

This Article examines how more than 50% of children living today may be disadvantaged by 1950s era inheritance laws … article explores the vast scope of the inheritance penalty, including the history of equitable adoption doctrines and … codes and a chart detailing how the adoption and inheritance laws of all fifty states interact to create the inheritance …

's discretion to decide which testamentary gifts to accept or to reject can be labeled “freedom of inheritance.”Although legal … maximizing social welfare, relatively little attention has been paid to the donee's freedom of inheritance and the role it plays …'s freedom of inheritance and identifies how it works in concert with the donor's freedom of disposition to maximize social …

The laws of inheritance hold a very special position in the injunctions of Shariah and are in fact a part of the very … inheritance in Islam. Indeed, people who are fully aware of Prayer, Fasting and Zakat are completely ignorant when it comes to … inheritance were not forced in sub continent hence if any infringement was caused the same could not be redressed. Today, the …