Add to ORKGThe transfer of a person\u27s assets after death has been an important element in the law beginning with the Magna Carta, and is firmly rooted in American jurisprudence. Defining children and heirs for probate purposes remains a difficult issue. In particular, the determination of children and heirs in an age when the birth of “illegitimate” children is common makes the proper and just determination of heirship a recurring and timely topic. The Minnesota Probate Code defines the term “child” and provides: “a person is the child of the person\u27s parents regardless of the marital status of the parents and the parent and child relationship may be established under the Parentage Act, sections 257.51 to 257.74.” The Minnesota Supreme Court rec...
In two recent decisions of the Supreme Court of Missouri, Drake v. Milton Hospital Association and L...
Where an individual had been declared to be an adopted son in equity for purposes of inheriting an e...
The laws of intestate succession have traditionally precluded stepchildren from sharing in the intes...
The transfer of a person\u27s assets after death has been an important element in the law beginning ...
In Re Anonymous\u27 Estate, 204: Misc. 1045, 126 N. Y. S. 2d 749 (Surr. Ct. 1953)
This action involved a determination of the heirs of A, a widow, whose deceased husband, B, was an i...
The Uniform Probate Code (Code), which was approved by the American Bar Association in August 1969, ...
Appeal by illegitimate from an adverse ruling in the trial court, presenting the question whether an...
Plaintiff alleged that she was an adopted daughter of testator, and, by reason thereof, claimed to b...
This Article will argue that the posthumous child and the rights and responsibilities relating to su...
Every state has an intestate succession statute that prescribes how the property of those who die wi...
Ohio\u27s adoption statutes have always been under the close scrutiny of the courts, the legislature...
Historically, nonmarital children were treated as “filius nullius,” the child of no one. American ju...
A child may be born after the death of its natural father. That has always been the case. Modern ad...
On December 11, 1978, the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision, upheld the constitutionality of a statute...
In two recent decisions of the Supreme Court of Missouri, Drake v. Milton Hospital Association and L...
Where an individual had been declared to be an adopted son in equity for purposes of inheriting an e...
The laws of intestate succession have traditionally precluded stepchildren from sharing in the intes...
The transfer of a person\u27s assets after death has been an important element in the law beginning ...
In Re Anonymous\u27 Estate, 204: Misc. 1045, 126 N. Y. S. 2d 749 (Surr. Ct. 1953)
This action involved a determination of the heirs of A, a widow, whose deceased husband, B, was an i...
The Uniform Probate Code (Code), which was approved by the American Bar Association in August 1969, ...
Appeal by illegitimate from an adverse ruling in the trial court, presenting the question whether an...
Plaintiff alleged that she was an adopted daughter of testator, and, by reason thereof, claimed to b...
This Article will argue that the posthumous child and the rights and responsibilities relating to su...
Every state has an intestate succession statute that prescribes how the property of those who die wi...
Ohio\u27s adoption statutes have always been under the close scrutiny of the courts, the legislature...
Historically, nonmarital children were treated as “filius nullius,” the child of no one. American ju...
A child may be born after the death of its natural father. That has always been the case. Modern ad...
On December 11, 1978, the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision, upheld the constitutionality of a statute...
In two recent decisions of the Supreme Court of Missouri, Drake v. Milton Hospital Association and L...
Where an individual had been declared to be an adopted son in equity for purposes of inheriting an e...
The laws of intestate succession have traditionally precluded stepchildren from sharing in the intes...