Death
What is the name of the legal process used to distribute a person’s property after they die, whether or not they have a will?
Probate.
Which Founding Father famously said that “nothing is certain except death and taxes”?
Benjamin Franklin.
On June 12, 1967, this U.S. Supreme Court case resulted in a unanimous 9–0 decision striking down anti-miscegenation laws banning interracial marriage?
Loving V. Virginia
What federal law prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, disability or familial status in housing-related activities such as renting, selling, or financing a home?
Fair Housing Act
What doctrine allows a person to gain title to land by openly, notoriously, and continuously possessing it for the statutory period and how long must you stay on the land?
Adverse Possession and you must possess the land for at least 7 years.
When a person dies without a valid will, what is the term for the statutory scheme that distributes their real and personal property?
Intestate succession.
What American State has the Highest Property Tax Rate?
New Jersey.
In Shelley v. Kraemer, the Supreme Court found that state courts could not enforce them due to this being deemed a “state action” in violation of what amendment/clause?
Equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
When did women gain full property rights in florida?
1943
Florida enacted statute that allowed women to own and manage their property, even if married.
What type of co-ownership automatically gives the surviving owner full title to the property when the other owner dies?
Joint tenancy with right of survivorship.
What rule prevents someone who intentionally kills a property owner from inheriting from them?
The Slayer Rule.
Which federal tax may apply to the transfer of property at death if the estate exceeds the exemption amount?
The federal estate tax.
This 1857 U.S. Supreme Court case held that enslaved people and their descendants were not U.S. citizens and could be treated as property, denying them the right to sue in federal court?
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Case law indicating that the pursuit of happiness includes the fundamental right to parent your children, but can often be outweighed by?
What is in the child's best interest
Which form of land description uses distances, angles, and natural landmarks and is common in older deeds?
Metes and bounds.
During the Middle Ages, what feudal doctrine required that a tenant’s land revert to the lord if the tenant died without heirs?
Doctrine of Escheat.
Which colonial-era protest in 1786–1787 was fueled in part by aggressive property tax collection and foreclosures?
Shays' Rebellion.
What Case set precedent that comprehensive zoning is a constitutional exercise of a municipality’s police power and does not violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?
Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co. (1926)
Which founding father added "The pursuit of Happiness" to the declaration of independence?
Thomas Jefferson
What are the four unities required to create a joint tenancy under the traditional common law?
Time, Title, Interest, and Possession.
Which 17th-century English statute first allowed a landowner to devise real property by will, reducing the king’s control over land after death?
The Statute of Wills
What famous 18th-century uprising occurred in response to the first major federal property tax in the United States, imposed to fund a possible war with France?
The Fries Rebellion (1799).
What case set precident that any permanent physical occupation of private property authorized by the government—no matter how small—is a per se taking under the Fifth Amendment.
Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corp. (1982)
Under Florida law, this constitutional protection shields a primary residence from forced sale by creditors, with limited exceptions.?
homestead protection
What doctrine allows courts to divide property fairly when a co-tenancy ends, either physically or by selling and splitting proceeds?
Partition.