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Trust (2023): Incentive trust + Protective Trust + Spendthrift trust
In American estate planning parlance, an incentive trust is a trust designed to encourage or discourage certain behaviors by using distributions of t…
2 years, 8 months ago
Family law (2023): Dissolution of marriages - Adultery (Part One)
Adultery (from Latin adulterium, “I change or alter one lineage for another”) is extra-marital sex partaken by a spouse, or premarital sex partaken b…
2 years, 8 months ago
United States Corporate Law: Part 3
While the board of directors is generally conferred the power to manage the day-to-day affairs of a corporation, either by the statute, or by the art…
2 years, 8 months ago
Article One of the United States Constitution (Part I)
Article One of the United States Constitution establishes the legislative branch of the federal government, the United States Congress. Under Article…
2 years, 8 months ago
Criminal law (2022): Provocation
In law, provocation is when a person is considered to have committed a criminal act partly because of a preceding set of events that might cause a re…
2 years, 8 months ago
Trust (2023): Interest in possession trust + charitable trust + Testamentary trust
An interest in possession trust is a trust in which at least one beneficiary has the right to receive the income generated by the trust (if trust fun…
2 years, 8 months ago
Family law (2023): Dissolution of marriages - Divorce (Part Two)
Polygyny is a significant structural factor governing divorce in countries where this is permitted. Little-to-no analysis has been completed to expli…
2 years, 8 months ago
United States Corporate Law: Part 3
Shareholder liability for debts.
One of the basic principles of modern corporate law is that people who invest in a corporation have limited liabilit…
2 years, 8 months ago
U.S. Bankruptcy (Part Three)
Key concepts in bankruptcy include the debtor's discharge and the related "fresh start". Discharge is available in some but not all cases. For exampl…
2 years, 8 months ago
Criminal law (2022): Justification + Mistake of law + Mistake of fact
Justification is a defense in a criminal case, by which a defendant who committed the acts asserts that because what they did meets certain legal sta…
2 years, 8 months ago