A model state statute Thomas Mitchell helped draft for the Uniform Law Commission became law in South Carolina in April. South Carolina is the seventh state to enact the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act into law. In South Carolina, the law was renamed the Clementa C. Pinckney Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act to honor the late senator and pastor, who was murdered along with eight others in a Charleston church last year. Senator Pinckney had been a champion of heirs property reform.

Submitted by Law School News on May 31, 2016

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