Call for Articles — Estate Planning and Community Property Law Journal
On the heels of a well-received collection of professional articles for its inaugural volume, the editors of the Estate Planning and Community Property Law Journal are currently seeking a law review style article (at least 30 double-spaced pages, including footnotes) to comprise Book 2, Volume II of what will prove to be a successful and compelling publication. The Journal just completed a Continuing Legal Education seminar held in Lubbock, Texas that has attracted many subscribers and generated great interest in its articles and student comments. It is permissible that the prospective author has previously published the article on SSRN or pursuant to a state bar seminar. Although the journal operates out of Texas Tech University School of Law, the article need not be confined to Texas law if it has a broad national appeal.
The article can be either academic or practical in nature, the subject matter of which can include: intestate succession, wills, trusts, testamentary substitutes, powers of attorney, inter vivos gifts, powers of appointment, joint tenancies, multi-party accounts, retirement accounts, annuities, life insurance, probate courts, probate proceedings and alternatives to formal proceedings, personal representatives, administrators, executors, trustees, trust and estate creditors, trust and estate beneficiaries, heirship proceedings, fiduciary litigation, income taxation of trusts and estates, federal and state transfer taxes (gift tax, estate tax, and generation-skipping transfer tax), alternative reproductive technologies, guardianships, medical powers of attorney, directives to physicians, anatomical gifts, long-term care insurance, disability income insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, elder abuse, marital property in community property jurisdictions, homestead and similar statutory asset protections, and historical, social, economic, international, ethical, professional responsibility and professional malpractice analyses related issues.
Do not miss the opportunity to be published with the only student-led estate planning journal in the nation. The deadline for Book 2, Volume II is November 30, 2009. Please send all submissions or questions to james.tawney@ttu.edu.