Wealth can be transferred on death in a number of different ways, most commonly by will. Yet a person can also use a variety of other means to benefit someone on death. Examples include donationes mortis causa, joint tenancies, trusts, life-insurance contracts and nominations in pension and retirement plans. In the US, these modes of transfer are grouped under the category of 'will-substitutes' and are generally treated as testamentary dispositions. Much has been written about the effect of the use of will-substitutes in the US, but little is generally known about developments in other jurisdictions. For the first time, this collection of contributions looks at will-substitutes from a comparative perspective. It examines mechanisms that pass wealth on death across a number of common law, civil law and mixed legal jurisdictions, and explores the rationale behind their use. It analyses them from different viewpoints, including those of owners of businesses, investors, as well as creditors, family members and dependants. The aims of the volume are to show the complexity and dynamics of wealth transfers on death across jurisdictions, to identify patterns between jurisdictions, and to report the attitudes towards the different modes of transfer in light of their utility and the potential frictions they give rise to with policies and principles underpinning current laws.

Renowned scholar of comparative private law Alexandra Braun examines the law of testamentary promises, details what happens when these promises are broken, and compares how and when the interests of beneficiaries of testamentary promises are protected across a number of legal systems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fCg7J7SatM Go look her up on the Alumni Wall of the 2nd Floor of CDH at McGill Law if you don't think I fell in love with the purest, most proper woman who ever graced the halls of Concordia U, who started me off, a very juvenile mind, on income tax. "Income tax is a law that applies to other law.": Kim Neufeld, CA, 1987. (This book came from "going to look for her" - go to the Library B.Comm twit - had no place else, where I never took "The Intro Tour" - learned it all at my own speed and drive. Cover, "everything", since that's how you learn to "shadow-box". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRYqNfHcJsE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvJ4wh1kwR8 .) 1400+ evaluated historic commonwealth case "fitted" to how they apply to the basic 2016 ITA that was developed in love with the spirit of a very driven success-in-the-clear-making. The law evolved, she evolved, and I did just a bit in relation to both. If you'd like to open your eyes and appreciate how the ITA applies to common-law trusts and estates, from a historic perspective, in Canada, circa 2016, by understanding how ours and others have considered its taxing statutes you should spend the effort and bury yourself in this old encyclopedia of case. ...It will turn you into something, like it did me - then it's just a question about what you'll do with it. To be read in love, like it was written, to be continued into perpetuity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu9o3vSYtl4 Still 23 yrs old, and you'll forever be 30. Where everything remained proper, as it should, since some things must be sacred. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe8YS_W3C1c How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every day’s Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use !!! In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. You don't pull off a B.Comm Honours at U of Man before you set higher sights tackling your World without being a Prom Queen Kim, and allowing me to fall in love with you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Erj2PYyDTE ...it's Her hand he's holding tho...others seek for the rest, for themselves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWHXPz6qF7g

This volume gathers influential and cutting-edge scholarship on the international and domestic rights attaching to married couples and other adult relationships. Addressing examples from the European Court of Human Rights, UK, USA, Canada, Australia and South Africa, it traces contentious debates about the content of marital rights and responsibilities and whether law should reach beyond marriage, and if so how. Twenty-four essays and a substantial introduction highlight the complexity and contradictions as marital law grapples with gender equality, the aftermath of recognizing gay and lesbian rights, abiding economic inequalities, andexotic issues such as forced marriage and polygamy.