Burgess v. Prince, --- So.3d ----, 2010 WL 199422 (Fla. 2d DCA Jan. 22, 2010) Access to trust funds is usually a zero-sum game: If I pay trust funds to one party, there's less money for everyone else. We usually think of this problem in terms of conflicting claims amongst trust beneficiaries: ...

The Year Without an Estate Tax continues.   As I have previously written, due to Congress's extreme irresponsibility and inability to get anything done at all, the Estate and Generation Skipping taxes are repealed in 2010, but for one year and one year only.  Last December, in a post enti ...

Ensayamos un género infrecuente(*) la crítica crítica de obras jurídicas. Dividido en tres partes, con abundancia de aclaraciones culposas.Por qué un escrutinio estrictoLas credenciales académicas del autor (profesor titular de derecho constitucional en la UBA), el formato y la extensión de la obra ...

139 posts on the LexBlog Network today and some really great content in today's top ten. Richard Renner of the Whistleblower Protection Blog has a good post on Howard Zinn, founding Board member of the National Whistleblowers Center. Chuck Peterson has a post on an attorney who won a $31 million set ...

As reported by Forbes in States Race To Clean Up Congress' Estate Tax Mess, several states - including Florida - aren't waiting around for Congress to get its act together on the estate tax front. While Congress dilly dallies, the states are racing to come to the aid of families whose estate ...

Foster v. Estate of Gomes, --- So.3d ----, 2010 WL 322170 (Fla. 5th DCA Jan. 29, 2010) Prenuptial agreements limiting themselves solely to spousal inheritance rights are governed by F.S. § 732.702. All other prenuptial agreements are governed by the more burdensome requirements of Fl ...

The family of Juan Robles is suing the Chicago police for his Illinois wrongful death. Robles, 28, was shot last September 27 during a police pursuit in Ashburn. The deadly incident occurred at around 11:55 pm. Police say they spotted a vehicle on South Kedzie Avenue that they believed was invol ...

In your face Como hace un amigo(*) empezamos el análisis mirando esto:El video es la transmisión oficial del discurso del Estado de la Unión que Barack dio la semana pasada frente al Congreso. Aprovechó para referirse a un fallo de la Corte Suprema. En la primera fila del auditorio, seis jueces del ...

Rachid v. Perez, --- So.3d ----, 2010 WL 173776 (Fla. 3d DCA Jan 20, 2010) We've all been there: you've been locked in mediation for hours and an unreasonable/ irrational litigant refuses to settle, even if - given the risks and benefits - it's plain to everyone that he&nbs ...

The Bulldog at Yale Gets No Tail (we used to sing that at Columbia), But he can get integrative medicine CME.Yale is offering integrative medicine CME: Yale School of Medicine, Integrative Medicine at Yale Integrative medicine combines treatments from conventional medicine and complementary an ...