Comparative Succession Law
Comparative Succession Law

Author: Kenneth Reid

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2015-08-27

Total Pages: 561

ISBN-13: 0191064211

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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 system or a system of some other kind? Are spouses treated more favourably than children? What provision is made for extra-marital children, for adopted children, for step-children? Does cohabitation give rise to entitlement? How are same-sex couples treated? Broader questions also arise of a historical and comparative nature. Where, for example, do the rules in intestate succession come from in particular legal systems? Have they been influenced by the rules in other countries? How are the rules explained and how are they justified? To what extent have they changed over time? What are the long-term trends? And finally, are the rules satisfactory, and is there pressure for their reform? As in the first volume, this book will focus on Europe and on countries which have been influenced by the European experience such as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the United States of America, Quebec, and the countries of Latin America. Further chapters are devoted to Islamic Law and Nordic law. Opening with a discussion on Roman law and concluding with an assessment of the overall development of the law in the countries surveyed, this book will provide a wider reflection on the nature and purpose of the law of intestate succession.

Intestate Succession
Intestate Succession

Author: Kenneth G. C. Reid

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 561

ISBN-13: 0198747128

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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 system or a system of some other kind? Are spouses treated more favourably than children? What provision is made for extra-marital children, for adopted children, for step-children? Does cohabitation give rise to entitlement? How are same-sex couples treated? Broader questions also arise of a historical and comparative nature. Where, for example, do the rules in intestate succession come from in particular legal systems? Have they been influenced by the rules in other countries? How are the rules explained and how are they justified? To what extent have they changed over time? What are the long-term trends? And finally, are the rules satisfactory, and is there pressure for their reform? As in the first volume, this book will focus on Europe and on countries which have been influenced by the European experience such as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the United States of America, Quebec, and the countries of Latin America. Further chapters are devoted to Islamic Law and Nordic law. Opening with a discussion on Roman law and concluding with an assessment of the overall development of the law in the countries surveyed, this book will provide a wider reflection on the nature and purpose of the law of intestate succession.

Les solidarités entre générations
Les solidarités entre générations

Author:

Publisher: Primento

Published: 2013-03-06

Total Pages: 740

ISBN-13: 2802741578

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L’ampleur des enjeux humains, économiques et sociaux posés par la question des solidarités entre générations a conduit l’International society of Family Law (ISFL) à choisir ce thème pour son XVe congrès mondial. Plus de 200 intervenants, venus de 50 pays, ont abordé ces questions sous l’angle juridique, mais aussi philosophique, économique et anthropologique. Cet ouvrage présente une partie de ces communications organisées autour de deux grands thèmes : l’enfant au cœur des solidarités familiales et la prise en charge des aînés par la famille. Des phénomènes tels que l’allongement de la durée de la vie, l’urbanisation des populations, la difficulté d’entrée sur le marché du travail ou encore l’éclatement des modèles familiaux traditionnels marquent notre monde contemporain et impliquent la disparition d’anciennes solidarités et l’apparition de nouvelles solidarités redessinant les relations entre générations, posant alors le problème du sort des personnes les plus fragiles : les enfants, les malades, les handicapés et, surtout, les personnes âgées. – Quel est alors le rôle de la famille et des collectivités dans la protection de ces personnes ? – Quels rapports entre solidarités publiques et solidarités privées ? – Quels sont les droits et libertés reconnus aux personnes que l’âge, la maladie ou le handicap, placent en situation de dépendances ? Telles sont les questions au cœur de cet ouvrage. The importance of the human, economic and social issues caused by the question of generations’ solidarities led the International Society of Family Law to choose this theme for its XVIth World Congress (Lyon, July 19-23rd 2011). More than 200 speakers from 50 countries studied these questions from the legal angle, but also philosophic, economic and anthropological. This work collects a part of these papers about two great issues: the child, as the center of family solidarities; and the support for elders by family. Phenomena such as increasing life expectancy, population urbanization, labor-market entry barriers, decline of traditional family patterns, mark in depth our contemporary world and involve old solidarity disappearance and new solidarity emergence, reshaping relations between generations while bringing up the problem of the fate of the most vulnerable: children, the sick, disabled, and especially elderly people. – What then is the role of families and communities in protecting these people? – What is the relationship between public and private solidarity? – What are the rights and freedoms of people placed by age, illness or disability in a dependence situation? These are the issues addressed by the authors of this book.

A Partilha em Inventário
A Partilha em Inventário

Author: Adaberto Costa

Publisher: Vida Economica Editorial

Published: 2015-06-26

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9897681256

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Uma referência essencial e obrigatória para o estudo e sobretudo aplicação do “Novíssimo” Processo de Inventário. Uma obra que vai clarificar as dúvidas que podem surgir com a retirada aos tribunais, pelo menos numa primeira fase, do processo de inventário. Neste momento de turbulência jurídica e legislativa, esta obra é uma referência essencial e obrigatória para o estudo e sobretudo aplicação do “Novíssimo” Processo de Inventário. Uma obra que vai clarificar as dúvidas que podem surgir com a retirada aos tribunais, pelo menos numa primeira fase, do processo de inventário, dúvidas essas, surgidas quer no espírito dos advogados que vêem alterado todo o processo judicial e regras adjectivas, quer os Senhores Notários que necessitam urgentemente de resolver as questões que vão surgindo com a aplicação do novo regime. Estrutura da Obra : - Os principios gerais do processo de inventário. Noções gerais. - O processo de inventário. O requerimento inicial. As declarações de cabeça-de-casal. - A citação e a notificação. A oposição. A resposta do cabeça-de-casal. - A conferência preparatória. O saneamento do processo e a conferência preparatória. - A emenda e a anulação da partilha. A emenda por acordo a rectificação de erros materiais. - A partilha de bens em casos especiais. O inventário em consequência de justificação de ausência. O inventário em consequência de separação, divórcio, declaração de nulidade ou anulação do casamento. O processo para separação de bens em casos especiais. - Legislação subsidiária. Taxas. Honorários. Multas. - O processo de inventário e a sua regulamentação: Portaria nº 278/2013, de 26 de agosto e Portaria nº 46/2015, de 23 de Fevereiro Contém ainda: - APÊNDICE (Os procedimentos simplificados; Desmistificar o Inventário) - LEGISLAÇÃO

Common Core and Better Law in European Family Law
Common Core and Better Law in European Family Law

Author: Katharina Boele-Woelki

Publisher: Intersentia nv

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 9050954758

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This volume contains twenty-three contributions delivered at the CEFL's second international conference which took place in Utrecht in December 2004. The interventions written by both experienced family experts as well as young researchers cover those fields of family law that are closely related to the activities of the CEFL: (1) divorce and maintenance between former spouses, (2) parental responsibilities, (3) informal long-term relationships and (4) the revised Brussels II Regulation. Furthermore, the opening two contributions deal not only with essential aspects of the harmonisation process of family law in Europe but also with the CEFL's working method.

Crude Existence
Crude Existence

Author: Kristin Reed

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2009-11-15

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0520258223

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After decades of civil war and instability, the African country of Angola is experiencing a spectacular economic boom thanks to its most valuable natural resource: oil. Focusing on the everyday realities of people living in the extraction zones, Reed explores the exclusion, degradation, and violence that are the fruits of petrocapitalism in Angola.