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The New York Law of Interstate Succession Compared with the Uniform Probate Code: Where There\u27s No Will There\u27s A Way [PDF]

, 1976
The purpose of this Article is to analyze, compare, and contrast New York’s law of intestacy with that of the Uniform Probate Code (Code). The Article may serve as a basis for estimating the impact on existing concepts of descent and distribution should
Kossow, Julian R.
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Back to the land…again: Ownership matters! 2025 CAES fellows lecture

Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, Volume 74, Issue 1, Page 4-13, March 2026.
Abstract I review historic and contemporary circumstances and issues linked with the ownership of land. I emphasize the importance of land ownership in influencing economic relations which are important to our understanding of the economy itself, the formation of the economy, winners, and losers.
B. James Deaton
wiley   +1 more source

Promise Unfulfilled: Law, Culture, and Women\u27s Inheritance Rights in Ghana [PDF]

, 2001
This Report presents the findings of a Fordham delegation. It consists of three parts. Part I sets out Ghana\u27s obligations under international law as they relate to issues of women\u27s equality generally and inheritance rights specifically.
Fenrich, Jeanmarie, Higgins, Tracy E.
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Experiences of Legal Pluralism in Sierra Leone: Land Governance, Neoliberal Dispossession and Gender (In)justice

Development and Change, Volume 57, Issue 2, Page 315-338, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Sierra Leone's land governance reform policies are often based on the neoliberal assumption that market growth, gender equality and women's empowerment are mutually compatible objectives. Contrary to this assumption, this article argues that while market‐oriented reforms can help to destabilize legal and cultural norms that are discriminatory ...
Mohamed Sesay, Simeon Koroma
wiley   +1 more source

The New Ice Age: Addressing the Deficiencies in Arkansas\u27s Posthumously Conceived Children Statute [PDF]

, 2020
The ability to conceive a child using the preserved genetic material, or gametes, of a deceased person presents a number of legal issues for inheritance, estate planning, Social Security, and parental rights.
Grecu, Patrick
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Intra‐Couple Wealth Inequality in South Africa

South African Journal of Economics, Volume 94, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Although there is increasing interest in wealth as a measure of well‐being, very few studies measure the wealth gap between men and women, and even fewer examine the gender wealth gap within couples. One of the main reasons for this is that data on wealth are collected at the household level in most surveys.
Daniela Casale, Adeola Oyenubi
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The Legacy of Carmen Diana Deere: Gender, Households, and Market Integration—An Introduction

Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 26, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper traces the trajectory of Carmen Diana Deere's work and provides a broad overview of her contributions to understanding the political economy of agrarian change in Latin America. The overview provides context for the groundbreaking work of scholars in this special issue and discusses how they extend Deere's work in three main areas ...
Günseli Berik, Mieke Meurs
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THE GROUNDS OF INHERITANCE IN RUSSIAN INHERITANCE LAW

Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021
The relevance of the research topic is predetermined by enormous practical potential of property inheritance issues. After all, there is no doubt that the law of succession to a certain extent affects the interests of every citizen.
I. Melnikova, M. Komarevtseva
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Basic Arkansas Intestate Succession, Rights of Surviving Spouses, and Related Curative Techniques for Lawyers and Landmen [PDF]

, 2009
Mineral interests may lay dormant for decades before becoming productive. In the interim, however, the owners of these interests do not lay dormant. They live long lives, marry, have children, and eventually, they die.
Robinette, J. Mark, Jr.
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‘Edited and Approved by Women for Maximum Benefit of all Readers’: Newsprint Journalism, the International Women's Year and the Remaking of a Gendered National Public in 1970s Ghana

Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 731-747, July 2025.
Abstract During the International Women's Year (IWY) of 1975, United Nations bodies made concerted efforts to ensure global awareness and understanding of the IWY aims of equality, peace and development, via the mass media. In this article, we engage with these strategies of global information distribution from the vantage point of Ghana, West Africa ...
Kate Skinner, Jovia Salifu, Akosua Adomako Ampofo   +2 more
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