Marvin B. Sussman
Judith N. Cates
David T. Smith
With the collaboration of Lodoska K. Clausen
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7758/9781610446983
Book Description:
Two sociologists and a lawyer examine here the attitudes of both survivors and attorney on various problems surrounding inheritance-from will-making through estate settlement. Within a legal frame of reference, this book is a study of what happens within a family at death-and why. The authors use the "inheritance unit" as the basis for looking at the functions of inheritance in intergenerational family continuity and the general patterns of family relationship.
eISBN: 978-1-61044-698-3
Subjects: Sociology, Economics