Dead Hands A Social History of Wills, Trusts, and Inheritance Law

Name: Dead Hands A Social History of Wills, Trusts, and Inheritance Law
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ISBN: 9780804762090

ISBN-10: 0804762090

ISBN-13: 9780804762090

Edition: 2009

Authors: Lawrence M. Friedman

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The law of succession rests on a single brute fact: you can't take it with you. The stock of wealth that turns over as people die is staggeringly large. In the United States alone, some41 trillion will pass from the dead to the living in the first half of the 21st century. But the social impact of inheritance is more than a matter of money; it is also a matter of what money buys and brings about. Law and custom allow people many ways to pass on their property. As Friedman's enlightening social history reveals, a decline in formal rules, the ascendancy of will substitutes over classic wills, social changes like the rise of the family of affection, changing ideas of acceptable heirs, and the…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 3/9/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introduction



Distribution after Death



The Last Will and Testament



Breaking a Will: Will Contests and Their Social Meaning



Will Substitutes



Dynastic and Caretaker Trusts



Control by the Dead and Its Limits: The Rise and Fall of the Rule against Perpetuities



Charitable Gifts and Foundations



Death and Taxes



Conclusion


Notes


Index