Rights versus responsibilities: adult children, parental wealth and contested wills

Commentary: Contested Wills and Will Contests.

When disinherited heirs challenge a will drafted by a person suspected of having dementia, a legal battle may ensue. The "lucid interval," a brief return to competence from a state of dementia, has been invoked in years past to establish the validity of contested wills. Shulman et al., having reviewed the medical and legal literature, make a convincing argument that no such period of competence...

Contested Domains, Fragmented Spaces: rights, responsibilities and rewards for conserving biodiversity and associated knowledge systems

Administrative or legal boundaries make little sense while understanding the evolution of nature, its diversity, complexity and simultaneity. And yet we live in a world in which most decisions have to be taken along these boundaries. Obviously, fragmentation of landscapes, eco-systems, and biospheres along artificial boundaries does impair our ability to let the socio-ecological interactions be...

Data Rights and Responsibilities

A human-rights-based analysis can be a useful tool for the scientific community and policy makers as they develop codes of conduct, harmonized standards, and national policies for data sharing. The human rights framework provides a shared set of values and norms across borders, defines rights and responsibilities of various actors involved in data sharing, addresses the potential harms as well ...

Parental Wealth and Adult Children’s Welfare in Marriage

Legislative briefing: patient rights and responsibilities laws.