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Jun. 23rd, 2003 07:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taratemimaTen hours today. Let's see how I hold up tomorrow.
PG. Alternate Universe. Yes, I use real people's names and public personas, but it isn't really them. Ms. Plastrow is my Sue, and there will be more characters I will make up. Okay? Backstory.
I don't usually chew Pocky when meeting with clients. This is, however, my first vampire client. I shouldn't eat when nervous, but why break a habit this late in my life?
Funny how a little curiosity can catch up with you. My speciality is probate law. A year ago, after Addison vs. Clark, I wrote a journal article on possible challenges for probate lawyers concerning vampire citizens. Then I got invited to conferences, consulted with other probate lawyers. Actually taking a case for a vampire? Never did. First time for everything, I guess.
He didn't look scary. I don't think he would bite anyone. Pale, but no more than other humans. Skinny, but it could just be in need of a good meal. No, I know because he set up an appointment at night. Also, he drained a stray pigeon before coming in.
He flails his arms and talked of a painting he did a century ago, of the young Constance Avery before she died of consumption. When he and his, well, parent, as good as a word as any, escaped London during the Blitz, he lost that painting. He heard it was now in Los Angeles. Does he have rights to it?
I chew my Almond Pocky, staring at his mouth. I give my full attention to my client, but this is not what I have in mind. Wonder how he kisses. Wonder how it would feel if he sinks his fangs in.
No. It means nothing. I'm just a fuzzy-haired woman on the doorstep of middle aged. Biological clock and all. That's right.
So why do I want to run into the arms of living death? Why am I talking like a horror show host?
1) Obviously issues of inheritance and property ownership would be paramount in probate law for vampires, but what previous legal rulings can be applied to it? How do I make some up with some 'grain of truth' in it?
I tried looking up "vampires and probate law" but all I got were rants about the IRS. I'll need to call in a favor from someone in my writer's group, but since he passed bar, he can charge me for it. :)
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nilchance, Am I right to assume that vampires in Ragnanok are not too different from the vampires in Anita Blake, that is cross the next town if you don't want to have your mind and body messed with? Somehow I imagine this character as sweet yet canny and cunning. You do not survive one hundred years without some manipulation of human (and vampire) nature.
More involved questions about characters might be sent if you have the time.
3) A living trust is a legal device designed to bypass the lengthy procedures of probate law when a person dies, so that his or her heirs come into possession of the deceased person's estate far more quickly. Think there is something like that for vampires? You know, I get staked, my descendents get property. Maybe it gets conficated by the state if they are executed for legal transgressions (you know, killing too many people).
4) Found Anita Blake-specific sites, with much spoilers. Church of Eternal Life and another one.
PG. Alternate Universe. Yes, I use real people's names and public personas, but it isn't really them. Ms. Plastrow is my Sue, and there will be more characters I will make up. Okay? Backstory.
I don't usually chew Pocky when meeting with clients. This is, however, my first vampire client. I shouldn't eat when nervous, but why break a habit this late in my life?
Funny how a little curiosity can catch up with you. My speciality is probate law. A year ago, after Addison vs. Clark, I wrote a journal article on possible challenges for probate lawyers concerning vampire citizens. Then I got invited to conferences, consulted with other probate lawyers. Actually taking a case for a vampire? Never did. First time for everything, I guess.
He didn't look scary. I don't think he would bite anyone. Pale, but no more than other humans. Skinny, but it could just be in need of a good meal. No, I know because he set up an appointment at night. Also, he drained a stray pigeon before coming in.
He flails his arms and talked of a painting he did a century ago, of the young Constance Avery before she died of consumption. When he and his, well, parent, as good as a word as any, escaped London during the Blitz, he lost that painting. He heard it was now in Los Angeles. Does he have rights to it?
I chew my Almond Pocky, staring at his mouth. I give my full attention to my client, but this is not what I have in mind. Wonder how he kisses. Wonder how it would feel if he sinks his fangs in.
No. It means nothing. I'm just a fuzzy-haired woman on the doorstep of middle aged. Biological clock and all. That's right.
So why do I want to run into the arms of living death? Why am I talking like a horror show host?
1) Obviously issues of inheritance and property ownership would be paramount in probate law for vampires, but what previous legal rulings can be applied to it? How do I make some up with some 'grain of truth' in it?
I tried looking up "vampires and probate law" but all I got were rants about the IRS. I'll need to call in a favor from someone in my writer's group, but since he passed bar, he can charge me for it. :)
2)
nilchance, Am I right to assume that vampires in Ragnanok are not too different from the vampires in Anita Blake, that is cross the next town if you don't want to have your mind and body messed with? Somehow I imagine this character as sweet yet canny and cunning. You do not survive one hundred years without some manipulation of human (and vampire) nature. More involved questions about characters might be sent if you have the time.
3) A living trust is a legal device designed to bypass the lengthy procedures of probate law when a person dies, so that his or her heirs come into possession of the deceased person's estate far more quickly. Think there is something like that for vampires? You know, I get staked, my descendents get property. Maybe it gets conficated by the state if they are executed for legal transgressions (you know, killing too many people).
4) Found Anita Blake-specific sites, with much spoilers. Church of Eternal Life and another one.
