The estate planning of an individual who owns a professional or other enterprise that maintains a tax-advantaged plan, such as a self-directed 401(k) plan, requires more than the completion and filing of the individual’s plan beneficiary designations. Complete planning requires that measures...

This Article, forthcoming in the American Journal of Comparative Law, assesses how Chinese intestacy laws augment and redress wealth inequality. In 2021, China’s first civil code took effect, reforming among other things the decades-old Succession Law. Focusing on the intestacy rules (the...

The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry (2017–19) in Australia revealed widespread misconduct in the financial sector including funeral insurance. There was evidence of confusion caused by the distinction between funeral life...

Marriage is often compared to a "contract." The contract analogy appears to be an argument about the law of marriage based on a settled concept called "contract." But it is in fact an assertion of a contested view of "contract": that legitimate obligation must derive from consent. This focus on...

I construct a three-stage simultaneous move game to evaluate the impact of having the option of signing a prenuptial agreement on domestic violence. In my framework, partners like exerting violence but dislike being subjected to violence by their partners. I find that the extent of violence...

The new EU Succession Regulation has caused a series of controversies. Doubts are linked, inter alia, to the application, as a result of the Regulation, of national laws, which in many places differ from each other. One such area is statutory inheritance. Diverging national rules may result in...

Twenty-six states require that women seeking an abortion wait between 18 and 72 hours after receipt of counseling before the abortion can be completed. Thirteen states require that the counseling be given in person necessitating at least two visits to the provider. In April of 2015, Arkansas...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to find out how the process of establishing Self-Acceptance for child clients in cases of sexual violence online and to find out who has a role in the implementation of online guidance on child clients in cases of sexual violence in the formation of...

In the most recent few years, customary international law is increasingly crystalizing to affirm that states must grant nationality to children born in their territory, if they would be otherwise stateless. In prior scholarship, this author has argued that such a norm of a customary...

This paper empirically evaluates the two opposite representations of the pre-1945 Korean comfort women. Far exceeding the estimate advocated by contract view, the scale of mobilization as estimated using demographic information falls within the range proposed by enslavement view. Indicating one...