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Sep. 9th, 2006 02:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vicarzI've been driving around listening to african Drum Music (Olatunji, Rythym of the drum). I keep passing people blasting urban/rap, and feeling weird because I'm really white. I'm sure no one realizes what it is.
edit - sigh, making that link I found he died in 2003. If there is immortality, it's in making art. His voice and music are familiar to me, and while the number of people touched drastically falls in time, I can still have an emotional reaction to all sorts of music by people whose death predates my birth. You can't say the same for random rich guys.
Minor tip from the intersection of wills, domestic relations, and practical experience - when you "choose" witnesses to sign you wills, or any legal document, make sure you actually choose people. Specifically, choose someone that will be easy to find in 20-50 years. Try to use a male, because they are less likely to change their name. Try to use someone that doesn't smoke or have serious diseases so they don't die. Try to pick someone that won't move around much (ie military guys are a bad idea). A contested document in 20 years often fails because no one can locate the witnesses or even prove they existed.
In early Bavaria, to convey real property one had to box the ears of young boys...The idea was that, by creating a painful memory, the young boys would be good witnesses if a dispute later arose as to the validity of the transfer.
Wills, Trusts, and Estates is a sad class. I just covered a section where gay people who tried to leave money to each other with a will drawn by some of the best law firms in the country were successfully contested because...well they were gay. Gay people have resorted to adopting their adult love so that if the will is contested, legally the lover is an heir. This is why when I hear rumors that states like VA have made laws that forbid legal contract terms that cover issues otherwise found under legal marriage, I get scared. I haven't, however, looked up VA law to determine if that is the case. We don't get a lot of legal research study in law school, and I'm realizing that's the most important thing we should learn. I hardly know how to research at all - though I'm getting adept and sketching cases in casebooks and taking exams. Those skills won't help me in real life.
edit - sigh, making that link I found he died in 2003. If there is immortality, it's in making art. His voice and music are familiar to me, and while the number of people touched drastically falls in time, I can still have an emotional reaction to all sorts of music by people whose death predates my birth. You can't say the same for random rich guys.
Minor tip from the intersection of wills, domestic relations, and practical experience - when you "choose" witnesses to sign you wills, or any legal document, make sure you actually choose people. Specifically, choose someone that will be easy to find in 20-50 years. Try to use a male, because they are less likely to change their name. Try to use someone that doesn't smoke or have serious diseases so they don't die. Try to pick someone that won't move around much (ie military guys are a bad idea). A contested document in 20 years often fails because no one can locate the witnesses or even prove they existed.
In early Bavaria, to convey real property one had to box the ears of young boys...The idea was that, by creating a painful memory, the young boys would be good witnesses if a dispute later arose as to the validity of the transfer.
Wills, Trusts, and Estates is a sad class. I just covered a section where gay people who tried to leave money to each other with a will drawn by some of the best law firms in the country were successfully contested because...well they were gay. Gay people have resorted to adopting their adult love so that if the will is contested, legally the lover is an heir. This is why when I hear rumors that states like VA have made laws that forbid legal contract terms that cover issues otherwise found under legal marriage, I get scared. I haven't, however, looked up VA law to determine if that is the case. We don't get a lot of legal research study in law school, and I'm realizing that's the most important thing we should learn. I hardly know how to research at all - though I'm getting adept and sketching cases in casebooks and taking exams. Those skills won't help me in real life.
