Let’s talk about in rem, in personam and quasi in rem jurisdiction. Oh boy, this column’s going to be one of those Latin things, right? Well, duh. But the plan here is to make it easily digestible.

In Hooten v. Collins, a dispute arose between the trustee of a Texas trust and a beneficiary who resided overseas regarding the distribution of trust assets, which primarily consisted of real estate ...

In Xilinx Inc. v. Papst Licensing GmbH & Co. KG, Appeal No. 2015-1919 (Fed. Cir. Feb. 15, 2017), the Federal Circuit applied the usual test for in personal jurisdiction, in an apparently new way, to ...

The Delaware court in Timoria LLC ruled it couldn’t use in rem or quasi in rem jurisdiction over digital assets like cryptocurrency unless there are strong legal ties, such as ownership or wrongful ...

The International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Vol. 63, No. 1 (JANUARY 2014), pp. 103-135 (33 pages) The Moçambique rule provides that an English court may not adjudicate on title to foreign ...

Thirty-six states have adopted some variation of the Uniform Trust Code (UTC). The UTC’s general goal is to provide uniformity and a set of default rules among the states in the regulation of trusts, ...