Volume V: Succession | Chapter 6 (2018): Non-Testamentary Acts Affecting the Devolution of an Estate
Completed June 1995 and revised 2012.
Eve Chava Landau
44. – This subchapter addresses the topic of gifts and what has become known as “will substitutes” american style: trusts, insurance, joint tenancy and multiple-party bank accounts as well as other transactions that affect the devolution of the estate of the deceased.
A. Gifts
i. Gifts inter vivos and Gifts mortis causa
45. Introduction. – Most systems of law, …