2025 Mary Moers Wenig Student Writing Competition Winners

The winners of the 2025 Mary Moers Wenig Student Writing Competition sponsored by the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Foundation are as follows:

FIRST PLACE WINNER: Chase Kristofer Duncan — “The Right of Publicity Predicament: Valuing a Postmortem Asset in the Contest of Future Technological Development” — Arizona State University – Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law

SECOND PLACE WINNER: Amanda Covaleski — “Inheriting the Right to Reclaim: When Copyright Termination Rights Supersede Testamentary Wishes” — Temple Law

THIRD PLACE WINNER: Pierson Broadwater — “Will of the Voiceless: Aphasia and the Shortcomings of the Testamentary Capacity Doctrine” — New York University School of Law

HONORABLE MENTION WINNERS:

• Abigail Dood — “Clarifying the UTC § 603 Chaos: A Survey of State Approaches to Settlor Incapacity in Revocable Trusts” — Arizona State University – Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law
• Daniel Perkins — “QTIP Terminations & § 2519: A Tale of Gift Taxing Complexity” — New York University School of Law
• Julia Madeleine Perry — “Conception from Beyond the Grave: Posthumous Gamete Retrieval, Heirship, and a Rebuttal Presumption of Non-Consent” — University of San Diego School of Law
• Clay Saffran-Johnson — “Codifying Heggstad Petitions in California” — UC Davis School of Law

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