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· 9/2/2004

In Re Estate of Blake

Citations

  • 856 A.2d 1151
  • 2004 D.C. App. LEXIS 433
  • 2004 WL 2033451

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • remanding the case for further proceedings to address the effect of the D.C. UNTDA, including intent, where the accounts were “designated specifically” as with rights of survivorship
  • remanding when Act took effect three days before the trial court rendered its decision and where witnesses testified that decedent never intended appellant to have survivorship rights to the assets
  • remanding when Act took effect three days before the trial court rendered its decision and where witnesses testified that decedent never intended appellant to have survivorship rights to the assets
  • applying law of decedent’s domicil, rather than law of estate where account opened, where District of Columbia had substantially adopted Uniform Nonprobate Transfers on Death Act, 8B U.L.A. 191 [Master ed. 1993 & Supp. 2005]
  • \The [UNTDA] does not effect a material change in the law with respect to whether the decedent made an inter vivos gift[.]\
  • applying Act to account established before Act went into effect

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Judges: Ruiz, Glickman, Ferren

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