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Tearing Down the Wall: How Transfer-on-Death Real-Estate Deeds Challenge the Inter Vivos/Testamentary Divide [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This Article will examine one of the most recent will substitutes, the transfer-on-death (“TOD”) real-estate deed. Nearly half of the states have recognized, through common-law forms or legislation, a mechanism to allow for the transfer of real property
Emrick, Stephanie L., Wright, Danaya C.
core   +2 more sources

Power in the courtroom: Judicial perspectives on care‐experienced girls and women in court

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
Abstract This article focuses on rarely heard judicial perspectives, and the little explored challenges facing care‐experienced girls and women in court. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews with judges and magistrates, it reveals how the court process may be a disempowering and inadequate process for both the powerful and the powerless.
Claire Fitzpatrick   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Succession to the Estates of Deceased Persons: Do Quasi-Community Property and Mandatory Survivorship Laws Need Protection? [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
Succession laws for those who have important connections with more than one country are clarified by the Hague Convention of Oct 20, 1988 on the Law Applicable to Succession to the Estates of Deceased Persons.
Bruch, Carol S.
core   +1 more source

Co‐production in the criminal justice system: Introducing the DEVICES principles

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
Abstract While the concept of co‐production is becoming embedded in mental health and social care, the criminal justice system (CJS) has been slower in embracing this approach. In this article, we draw on the findings of a process evaluation of the Include UK Hub – a co‐produced service for people with offending histories in Swansea, UK and, in doing ...
Gemma Morgan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Berry-Esseen bounds and multivariate limit theorems for functionals of Rademacher sequences [PDF]

open access: yesAnn. Inst. H. Poincar\'e Probat. Stat. 52, 763-803 (2016), 2014
Berry-Esseen bounds for non-linear functionals of infinite Rademacher sequences are derived by means of the Malliavin-Stein method. Moreover, multivariate extensions for vectors of Rademacher functionals are shown. The results establish a connection to small-ball probabilities and shed new light onto the relation between central limit theorems on the ...
arxiv  

‘Hammering on the pressure’: Prison governor well‐being and the need for a more humanised approach

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
Abstract The challenges of prison work and the impact on the well‐being of prison officers is widely publicised. However, less is known about the well‐being of prison governors, and what may impact this: the focus of this research. Semi‐structured interviews (n = 63) with prison governors across England, Scotland and Wales, analysed using thematic ...
Lauren Smith   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Property Law: The Estates of Missing Persons [PDF]

open access: yes, 1966
This comment compiles and critically analyzes the various statutory provisions enacted for the preservation and distribution of the property of missing and unaccounted-for persons.
Johansson, Pernilla
core   +2 more sources

The Journey to Comprehensibility: Court Forms as the First Barrier to Accessing Justice. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Semiot Law, 2022
Grieshofer Née Tkacukova T   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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