Rights of Creditors to Reach Assets of a Revocable Trust after the Death of the Grantor - The Missouri Approach

The question whether creditors of a decedent\u27s estate can reach the assets of an inter vivas trust is difficult. This article discusses the answers reached in various situations, and also a recent Missouri statute that allows the trustee to limit the time for creditors\u27 claims

Annual Survey of Virginia Law: Wills, Trusts, and Estates

In its 2000 Session, the General Assembly enacted legislation dealing with wills, trusts, and estates that added, amended, or repealed a number of sections of the Virginia Code. It also carried over one significant bill to the 2001 Session. In addition, there were nine Supreme Court of Virginia opinions, one United States District Court opinion, two Virginia Circuit Court opinions, and one Attorney General\u27s opinion raising issues of interest to the general practitioner as well as the specialist in wills, trusts, and estates during the period covered by this review. This article reports on all ofthese legislative and judicial developments

Annual Survey of Virginia Law: Wills, Trusts, and Estates

The 1988 session of the General Assembly enacted legislation dealing with wills, trusts, and estates that added, amended, or repealed a number of sections of the Code of Virginia (the Code). In addition to this legislation, there were six cases from the Virginia Supreme Court, and one case from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, in the year ending June 1, 1988, that involved issues of interest to both the general practitioner and the specialist in wills, trusts, and estates. This article analyzes each of these legislative and judicial developments

Wills, Trusts and Estates (Annual Survey of Virginia Law, 1987-88)

The 1988 session of the General Assembly enacted legislation dealing with wills, trusts, and estates that added, amended, or repealed a number of sections of the Code of Virginia (the Code). In addition to this legislation, there were six cases from the Virginia Supreme Court, and one case from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, in the year ending June 1, 1988, that involved issues of interest to both the general practitioner and the specialist in wills, trusts, and estates. This article analyzes each of these legislative and judicial developments

Wills, Trusts and Estates (Annual Survey of Virginia Law, 2001-2002)

The General Assembly enacted legislation dealing with wills, trusts, and estates that added or amended a number of sections of the Virginia Code in its 2002 Session. In addition, there were ten Supreme Court of Virginia opinions and two United States District Court opinions raising issues of interest to the general practitioner as well as the specialist in wills, trusts, and estates during the period covered by this review. This article reports on all of these legislative and judicial developments

Multiple-Party Bank Accounts under the Uniform Probate Code

Although this article is intended as a summary of the Uniform Probate Code\u27s provisions in the area of multiple-party accounts. it may be at least sufficient to suggest the much-needed certainty and uniformity which the UPC will bring to a confused and confusing area of the law. The beneficiaries of this advance will be the public, who will have another alternative to probate in appropriate cases, and financial institutions, who will have another service to market. For these reasons it is suggested that the banking community will want to lend its enthusiastic support when the UPC is introduced into any given jurisdiction

Wills, Trusts, and Estates

The 2010 Session of the General Assembly enacted wills, trusts, and estates legislation (i) adopting the Uniform Power ofAttorney Act, (ii) passing emergency legislation for the construction of tax-oriented wills and trusts of persons who die during 2010 with documents drafted prior thereto, (iii) revising the small-estate statutes, and (iv) clarifying the burial power of attorney. In addition, there were six other enactments, and seven opinions from the Supreme Court of Virginia during the one-year period ending June 1, 2010 that present issues of interest in thisarea. This article reports on all of these legislative and judicial developments, along with a Supreme Court of Virginia case decided ten days after the normal cutoff date for the Annual Survey of Virginia Law because it addresses an issue of significant interest to the bar-the retroactivity of Virginia\u27s 2007 dispensation statute

Annual Survey of Virginia Law: Wills, Trusts, and Estates

The 1985 session of the General Assembly passed a number of bills dealing with wills, trusts, and estates, many of which resulted from the continuing law reform efforts of the Virginia Bar Association\u27s Committee on Wills, Trusts and Estates. In addition to this legislation, the Virginia Supreme Court decided six cases during the past year that involved issues of interest to both the general practitioner and the specialist in wills and trusts. This article reviews all of these legislative and judicial developments. In order to facilitate the discussion of numerous code sections, they will be referred to in the text by their section numbers only, which will be understood as always referring to the latest printing of the old sections and to the 1985 supplement for the new sections. All references to the Uniform Probate Code are to the 1982 publication