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This pivotal Research Handbook analyses the interconnectedness of family property and the law through historical, contemporary, comparative and jurisdiction-specific lenses. Authors analyse some of the most well-known, contested and politicised legal developments in the field of family property law.
This book is about the protection from disinheritance. Regardless of what a person's will might say, the closest relatives usually have a claim to some of the deceased's property. The book explores this issue in a sample of countries in Europe as well as in the USA, Canada, Latin America, China, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.
Hauptbeschreibung In 2011 the Norwegian government appointed a Committee to prepare a proposal for a new inheritance act to replace the inheritance act of 1972. A German-Norwegian seminar on inheritance law took place in Bergen 2012 with a special attention to the ongoing reform of Norwegian inheritance law. The topics of the seminar were the protection of children and the surviving partner - both spouse and cohabitant. The seminar included presentations from scholars from both countries, each presented from a Norwegian and a German perspective. Several lectures also include a.
Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this concise exposition and analysis of the essential elements of law with regard to family relations, marital property, and succession to estates in Germany covers the legal rules and customs pertaining to the intertwined civic status of persons, the family, and property. After an informative general introduction, the book proceeds to an in-depth discussion of the sources and instruments of family and succession law, the authorities that adjudicate and administer the laws, and issues surrounding the person as a legal entity and the legal disposition of property among family members. Such matters as nationality, domi...
This volume contains the reports and discussions presented at the conference "The Future of Secured Credit in Europe" in Munich from July 12th to July 14th, 2007. It aims at taking the debate to a new stage by exploring the need and possible avenues for creating a European law of security interests. The first part examines – from an economic and a community law perspective – the case for European lawmaking on secured credit and the legislative approach to be taken. The intention in the second and third part is to look in more detail at the choices European lawmakers will have to make in devising a European law of secured credit. The second part focuses on secured transactions involving corporeal movables (tangibles), whereas the third part considers categories of collateral that may require special rules.
Wealth can be transferred on death in a number of different ways, most commonly by will. Yet a person can also use a variety of other means to benefit someone on death. Examples include donationes mortis causa, joint tenancies, trusts, life-insurance contracts and nominations in pension and retirement plans. In the US, these modes of transfer are grouped under the category of 'will-substitutes' and are generally treated as testamentary dispositions. Much has been written about the effect of the use of will-substitutes in the US, but little is generally known about developments in other jurisdictions. For the first time, this collection of contributions looks at will-substitutes from a compar...
Intestate Succession is the second volume in the Comparative Succession Law series which examines the principles of succession law from a comparative and historical perspective. This volume discusses the rules which apply where a person dies either without leaving a valid will, or leaving a will which fails to dispose of all of the person's assets. Among the questions considered are the following: What is the nature of the rules for the disposal of the deceased's assets? Are they mechanical or is there an element of discretion? Are particular types of property dealt with in particular ways? Is there entitlement to individual assets (as opposed to money)? Do the rules operate in a parentelic ...
Gegenstand dieser Arbeit ist die Untersuchung der Vereinbarkeit des seit dem 1.1.2005 in § 1306 BGB enthaltenen Eheverbots der bestehenden Eingetragenen Lebenspartnerschaft mit Art. 6 Abs. 1 GG. Dazu ist die Stellung sowohl der Ehe als auch der Eingetragenen Lebenspartnerschaft im Gefüge der grundgesetzlichen Rechtsordnung hinsichtlich des grundgesetzlichen Schutzes und der Funktionen beider Rechtsinstitute eingehend untersucht worden. Auf Grundlage der gefundenen Ergebnisse ist sodann untersucht worden, ob die mit der Errichtung des Eheverbots verbundene Einschränkung der Eheschließungsfreiheit gerechtfertigt ist. Dies ist wegen der Verletzung des Verhältnismäßigkeitsprinzips im Ergebnis nicht der Fall. Das Eheverbot der bestehenden Eingetragenen Lebenspartnerschaft ist wegen Verstoßes gegen Art. 6 Abs. 1 GG verfassungswidrig.
Die Elternverantwortung bildet als persönlichkeitsentfaltendes Interaktionsverhältnis von Eltern und Kind ein besonders komplexes Grundrecht und ist angesichts der Pluralisierung und Segmentierung von Elternschaft besonderen Herausforderungen ausgesetzt. Michael von Landenberg-Roberg rekonstruiert die Entwicklungsgeschichte des Art. 6 Abs. 2 GG als kontextsensible Problemgeschichte und entwirft die Strukturen für seine zukunftsorientierte grundrechtsdogmatische Operationalisierung. Dabei zeigt er zugleich exemplarisch auf, mit welchen Formen und Figuren sich Problemstellungen grundrechtsintern überzeugend rekonstruieren lassen und wie sich semantische Interpretation und dogmatische Konstruktion wechselseitig beeinflussen. Dies ist methodisch eine Studie zur Funktionsweise und Leistungsfähigkeit von Grundrechtsdogmatik und inhaltlich eine problemsensible Konstruktion der Elternverantwortung.
Compilation of data on passengers of Russian nationality who immigrated to the United States from Russian territories between 1875 and 1891. Passenger lists are arranged chronolgically by date of arrival at New York harbor.