Kevin Bennardo, ‘Slaying Contingent Beneficiaries’

Abstract:
… The Article argues for the opposite conclusion: the slaying of a higher-priority beneficiary by a contingent beneficiary does not result in unjust enrichment because it does not result in a transfer of a property interest to the slayer. Although the slayer advances in the line of succession as a result of the slaying, the slayer still only possesses a defeasible expectancy, not a property interest. Because an expectancy is the legal equivalent of nothing, the slayer has not profited as a result of the killing … (more)

Kevin Bennardo, ‘Slaying Contingent Beneficiaries’. 24 University of Miami Business Law Review 31 (2016).

First posted 2016-01-12 12:48:48

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