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Papers by Bodil Selmer

Research paper thumbnail of Vil staten afstå arv til slægtninge

Research paper thumbnail of Refleksioner efter den danske arvelovsreform i 2007: Giver arveloven adækvate regler for at løse dagens udfordringer som følge af samfundsudviklingen?

Research paper thumbnail of Inheritance: Creating Family and Kin

Research paper thumbnail of Refleksioner efter den danske arvelovsreform af 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Arvelovens § 3a: visse ugifte samlevende har allerede arveret

Research paper thumbnail of Concerns, Considerations and Conceptions of Kinship

Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale

Divorce, remarriage and new partnerships create blended families with complex configurations of e... more Divorce, remarriage and new partnerships create blended families with complex configurations of emotional and financial engagements. The latest reform of the Danish Inheritance Act in 2008 was an attempt to cope with the legal challenges posed by blended families with regard to inheritance. The solution was to grant the surviving spouse greater rights as well as a greater share of the estate, thus favouring the horizontal conjugal bond between current spouses. Since the surviving spouse is often not the parent of all the deceased's children, the vertical transfer of assets and heirlooms between generations is challenged. This has consequences for the way material things can generate continuities and act to reproduce kinship over time, as a way of kinning former and coming generations. This article addresses the role of inheritance and heirlooms in processes of kinning and de-kinning. Résumé Divorce, mariages et nouveaux partenaires créent des familles recomposes avec des configu...

Research paper thumbnail of Med borgeren i centrum?

Aarhus University Press eBooks, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of Kvinden fra Tyrkiet

Kvinden fra Tyrkiet - en cas

Research paper thumbnail of Vil staten afstå arv til slægtninge

Research paper thumbnail of Disputing the Emotional Estate. Moral and Financial Inheritance in Vigdis Hjorth’s Will and Testament (2016) and Helga Hjorth’s Free Will (2017)

Law & Literature, 2021

Arv og miljo [Will and Testament] is about incest, trauma, and an inheritance dispute among four ... more Arv og miljo [Will and Testament] is about incest, trauma, and an inheritance dispute among four middle-aged siblings concerning testamentary dispositions of two beloved and valuable family cabins....

Research paper thumbnail of Samfunnsutvikling og arverettslige utfordringer

Research paper thumbnail of Indvandrerkvinder. Kulturelle og religiøse traditioner i nye omgivelser

Research paper thumbnail of Inheritance: Creating Family and Kin

Research paper thumbnail of Refleksioner efter den danske arvelovsreform af 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Arvelovens § 3a: visse ugifte samlevende har allerede arveret

Research paper thumbnail of Samfunnsutvikling og arverettslige utfordringer

Research paper thumbnail of Vil staten afstå arv til slægtninge?: Will the Danish State relinquish inheritance to next of kin?

Research paper thumbnail of Nordic Inheritance Law through the Ages

Research paper thumbnail of Nordic Inheritance Law through the Ages

Research paper thumbnail of Familien i arveloven: Sammensæt din egen familie!

Tidsskrift For Familie Og Arveret, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Vil staten afstå arv til slægtninge

Research paper thumbnail of Refleksioner efter den danske arvelovsreform i 2007: Giver arveloven adækvate regler for at løse dagens udfordringer som følge af samfundsudviklingen?

Research paper thumbnail of Inheritance: Creating Family and Kin

Research paper thumbnail of Refleksioner efter den danske arvelovsreform af 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Arvelovens § 3a: visse ugifte samlevende har allerede arveret

Research paper thumbnail of Concerns, Considerations and Conceptions of Kinship

Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale

Divorce, remarriage and new partnerships create blended families with complex configurations of e... more Divorce, remarriage and new partnerships create blended families with complex configurations of emotional and financial engagements. The latest reform of the Danish Inheritance Act in 2008 was an attempt to cope with the legal challenges posed by blended families with regard to inheritance. The solution was to grant the surviving spouse greater rights as well as a greater share of the estate, thus favouring the horizontal conjugal bond between current spouses. Since the surviving spouse is often not the parent of all the deceased's children, the vertical transfer of assets and heirlooms between generations is challenged. This has consequences for the way material things can generate continuities and act to reproduce kinship over time, as a way of kinning former and coming generations. This article addresses the role of inheritance and heirlooms in processes of kinning and de-kinning. Résumé Divorce, mariages et nouveaux partenaires créent des familles recomposes avec des configu...

Research paper thumbnail of Med borgeren i centrum?

Aarhus University Press eBooks, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of Kvinden fra Tyrkiet

Kvinden fra Tyrkiet - en cas

Research paper thumbnail of Vil staten afstå arv til slægtninge

Research paper thumbnail of Disputing the Emotional Estate. Moral and Financial Inheritance in Vigdis Hjorth’s Will and Testament (2016) and Helga Hjorth’s Free Will (2017)

Law & Literature, 2021

Arv og miljo [Will and Testament] is about incest, trauma, and an inheritance dispute among four ... more Arv og miljo [Will and Testament] is about incest, trauma, and an inheritance dispute among four middle-aged siblings concerning testamentary dispositions of two beloved and valuable family cabins....

Research paper thumbnail of Samfunnsutvikling og arverettslige utfordringer

Research paper thumbnail of Indvandrerkvinder. Kulturelle og religiøse traditioner i nye omgivelser

Research paper thumbnail of Inheritance: Creating Family and Kin

Research paper thumbnail of Refleksioner efter den danske arvelovsreform af 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Arvelovens § 3a: visse ugifte samlevende har allerede arveret

Research paper thumbnail of Samfunnsutvikling og arverettslige utfordringer

Research paper thumbnail of Vil staten afstå arv til slægtninge?: Will the Danish State relinquish inheritance to next of kin?

Research paper thumbnail of Nordic Inheritance Law through the Ages

Research paper thumbnail of Nordic Inheritance Law through the Ages

Research paper thumbnail of Familien i arveloven: Sammensæt din egen familie!

Tidsskrift For Familie Og Arveret, 2010