In which the Historians discuss family law, poverty law, and divorce law and how they come up on the Real Housewives, “high-wealth families” legal regulations around high-wealth exceptionalism, the Girardi divorce, the differences between trusts and estates and much, much more!

Further Readings

Allison Tate, Home of the Dispossessed, Michigan Journal of Gender & Law (2022). 

Allison Tate, Inheriting Privilege, 116 Minnesota Law Review (2022). 

Allison Tate, Custom of The Country: Trusts and Marriage Planning in High-Wealth Families, 34 American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Journal 219 (2021).

Jessica Marie Johnson, Wicked Flesh

Rachel Sherman,  "'A Very Expensive Ordinary Life': Consumption, Symbolic Boundaries, and Moral Legitimacy among New York Elites." Socio-Economic Review 16(2): 411-433 (2018)

Sources

Lisa Vanderpump in ABC's "Poison Arrow"

Clip from Real Housewives of New York, Season 10 Episode 12: "Every Mayflower Has Its Thorn"

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