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Deed Covenants of Title and the Preparation of Deeds: Theory, Law, and Practice in Arkansas
By Lynn Foster and J. Cliff McKinney, II | 34 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L. REV. 53 (2011). Let’s assume A sold B his 50-year-old bungalow, located on a platted, fenced city lot in Little Rock. A conveyed a typical …
No Paradise to Regain: Comments on Russell G. Pearce and Eli Wald, The Obligation of Lawyers to Heal Civic Culture: Confronting the Ordeal of Incivility in the Practice of Law
By Kenneth S. Gallant | 34 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L. REV. 113 (2011) Pearce and Wald present a brilliant piece. You have to hear that up front because my task is a very difficult one—to respond to a piece …
Setting the Record Straight on State v. John Ingram Purtle: Reflections on the Great Dissenter
By Samuel A. Perroni | 34 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L. REV. 135 (2011). The fact of the matter is the late John Ingram Purtle is the only sitting Supreme Court Justice in Arkansas history to be charged with a …
Estate and Probate Law—Testamentary Disposition of Non-probate Assets: Whether IRAs are Comparable to Life Insurance Policies and Whether Testators Should Be Able to Change an IRA Beneficiary by Will. Nunnenman v. Estate of Grubbs, 2010 Ark. App. 75, __ S.W.3d __.
By Ashley L. Haskins | 34 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L. REV. 153 (2011). Most courts have held that any attempt to change the beneficiary of a life insurance policy by will is ineffectual where the policy “specifies the manner …
Property Law—Homestead Exemption—A Beneficiary Interest Can Support a Homestead Exemption in Arkansas and a Look at Other Interests Sufficient to Support a Homestead Exemption. Fitton v. Bank of Little Rock, 2010 Ark. 280, __ S.W.3d __.
By Seth Williams | 34 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L. REV. 173 (2011) Consider the following scenario. Husband and Wife each transfer their respective shares of the marital home into separate revocable trusts as part of their estate plan. They …
Constitutional Law—It Wasn’t Me! Zinger v. State and Arkansas’s Unconstitutional Approach to Third-Party Exculpatory Evidence. Zinger v. State, 313 Ark. 70, 852 S.W.2d 320 (1993).
By Bourgon B. Reynolds | 34 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L. REV. 191 (2011). If the Constitution guarantees criminal defendants a meaningful opportunity to present a complete defense, why have Arkansas courts interpreted Zinger v. State in a manner that …
The Obligation of Lawyers to Heal Civic Culture: Confronting the Ordeal of Incivility in the Practice of Law
By Russell G. Pearce and Eli Wald | 34 U. ARK. LITTLE ROCK L. REV. 1 (2011). After the January 2011 shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and eighteen bystanders, Pima County Sherriff Clarence Dupnik provoked a national debate on civility …