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ISBN: | 0804771081 9780804771085 9780804760362 9780804762090 0804760365 0804762090
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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Summary: | Law and custom allow people many ways to pass on their property. As Friedman's enlightening social history reveals, a decline in formal rules, the ascendancy of will substitutes over classic wills, social changes like the rise of the family of affection, changing ideas of acceptable heirs, and the potential disappearance of the estate tax all play a large role in the balance of wealth. Dead Hands uncovers the tremendous social and legal importance of this rite of passage, and how it reflects changing values and priorities in American families and society. --from publisher description.
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Other form: | Print version: Friedman, Lawrence Meir, 1930- Dead hands. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Law Books, ©2009
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