Inheritance matters : kinship, property, law /: kinship, property, law. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Suzanne Lenon, Daniel Monk.
• Editors: Lenon, Suzanne; Monk, Daniel
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Why Inheritance? Daniel Monk ( University of London, UK) and Suzanne Lenon (University of Lethbridge, Canada)Part One: Foregrounding Inequalities – Past and Present2. Defining Family Trees and Building Family Fortunes: A Look into Dispossession and Enrichment Through Inheritance Laws, Allison Tait (University of Richmond, UK)3. 'My Reputed Children': Legacies of Enslavement in Atlantic-Island Wills, Anne Bottomley (Kent Law School, UK)4. 'Charitable Inclinations': Women's Bequests to Ireland's Magdalene Laundries, Máiréad Enright (Birmingham Law School, UK)Part Two: Legal Fiction and Wills in Fiction5. Surnames and Inheritance: Will-Plotting and Female Economic Power in the Eighteenth-Century Novel, Jolene Zigarovich (University of Northern Iowa, USA)6. Murder, Inheritance and Family Provision in the Golden Age of English Detective Fiction, Rebecca Probert (Exeter University, UK)Part Three: Resistance, Rights and Agency7. The Story of the Pink Cat: An Exploration of the Ways Care-Experienced People Navigate Inheritance, Delyth Edwards (University of Leeds, UK) and Rosie Canning (University of Southampton, UK)8. Queer Property, Russell Perkins (Artist, USA)9. Sentimental Value: Keeping Inheritance in the Family, Sarah Gilmartin (Lancaster University, UK) and Anita Purewal (Lancaster University, UK)Part Four: Adjudicating Inheritance/Adjudicating 'Family'10. How Social Norms and Values Influence the Balance between Wills Variation Claimants and Testators, Allison A Cartier (Juris Doctor, Canada)11. Testamentary Freedom in Debate: The Prerequisite of the Notary to Pass Down and to Inherit, Corinne Delmas (Université Gustave Eiffel, France)12. Children in Need and the Great Intergenerational Wealth Transfer: Squaring the Impossible Circle of Testamentary Freedom, Family Obligations and the Role of the State, Heather Conway (Queen's University Belfast, UK) and Sheena Grattan (TEP, UK)Part Five: Looking Backwards into the Future13. The Power of Blood: How Succession Law's Reliance on DNA Reinvigorates White Supremacy and the Politics of Biological Privilege, Danaya C Wright (University of Florida, USA)14. Women, Property and Agency: Contours of Matrilineal Inheritance among the Nayars in Kerala, India, Lekha N B (Sree Narayana College, India) and Antony Palackal (University of Kerala, India)15. Egalitarianism or Just a Need for Revenues? Debates on Inheritance Taxation in Scandinavia, Martin Dackling (Lund University, Sweden)16. Émile Durkheim's Proposal to Abolish Inheritance, Mélanie Plouviez (Côte d'Azur University, France).
• Publisher Details: Oxford : Hart Publishing
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (336 pages)
• Subjects: 346.052; Inheritance and succession; Kinship (Law); Inheritance and succession -- Social aspects; Inheritance and succession in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781509964826
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