Wait...Is That Legal?
A Podcast about TV Shows and Movies and the legal issues they raise. Each episode looks at a legal topic presented in a Movie or TV Show and analyzes it based on the real laws where the episode or movie is set.
Wait...Is That Legal?
In re Flight 828 and the 4400 Returned
Re: Manifest (2018), The 4400 (2004)/Death in Absentia
How can someone be declared dead without a body? What happens if someone who was declared dead is still alive?
Sources:
Social Security Administration Handbook, Sec. 1721.
New York Consolidated Laws. Estates, Powers, and Trusts Law, Sec. 2-1.7.
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes. Title 10, Chapter 57, Absentees and Presumed Decedents.
“Presumption of Death” Wikipedia.
Jeanne Carriere. "The Rights of the Living Dead: Absent Persons in Civil Law" 50 Louisiana Law Review 901 (1990).
Donald Miller Story
Benjamin Holmes Story
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20001203mag-thernstrom.html
Brenda Heist Story
https://abcnews.go.com/US/runaway-moms-husband-facing-insurance-payout-fight/story?id=19102738
Written, Researched, and Recorded by Céleste Young, 2024.
Music: Out On My Skateboard - Mini Vandals
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