Estate Planning

74.6.18.220 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp) http://www.uslaw.com/law_blogs/item=163563 us_law_blawgs.php UofL LAW: "Anna Nicole Smith and the Right to Control Disposition of the Dead" by Prof. Jones
"Anna Nicole Smith and the Right to Control Disposition of the Dead" Louisville Bar Briefs, Vol. 7, No. 5, May 2007 University of Louisville School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series No...

74.6.18.220 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp) http://www.uslaw.com/law_blogs/item=163563 us_law_blawgs.php Florida Comon Law gives Guardian Ad Litem of Child Priority of Mother's Disposition
Arthur v. Milstein. et al, 949 So.2d 1163 (Fla. 4th DCA February 28, 2007) In this dispute regarding who controlled the disposition of the body of Anna Nicole Smith, the trial court ruled that the guardian ad litem for her minor daughter Dannielynn had priority over Anna Nicole Smith?s mother based upon interpretation of Florida Statutes section 406 defining a "legally authorized person" upon whom a funeral home can rely to receive burial instructions...

74.6.18.220 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp) http://www.uslaw.com/law_blogs/item=163563 us_law_blawgs.php Anna Nicole Smith Update - no, we’re not done yet
According to this story at Reuters, a judge in LA today “ruled that the baby daughter of deceased model Anna Nicole Smith is the sole heir to her estate, meaning 18-month-old Dannielynn could inherit a multimillion-dollar fortune...

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I'm not going to post about legal battles or the ever increasing list ofopportunists declaring 'Tis I,the child's father'. I wanted to mention something slightly less dramatic. I spotted a story about a not terribly successful biography of Anna Nicole: 'Great big beautiful doll', which is now flying off the shelves...

74.6.18.220 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp) http://www.uslaw.com/law_blogs/item=163563 us_law_blawgs.php Once again a celebrity death emphasizes the need for estate planning
It's no wonder that estate planning/wills/trusts is such a lucrative practice for lawyers interested in it. While I can't speak to Australian law, I would think that its premises regarding "unborn heirs" is consistently the same as in New York or any other state for that matter...

74.6.18.220 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp) http://www.uslaw.com/law_blogs/item=163563 us_law_blawgs.php Update #1: Anna Nicole Smith
I blogged about this case previously (here and here). As this article notes, Ms. Smith's daughter Dannielynn has been named her sole heir. The interesting issue raised here is this: if you specifically disinherit someone (as Ms...

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