Here we go again. Because our posts Weird Probate Issues and More Weird Probate Issues are so popular, we have decided to keep going with the series … can you believe we are up to Part 10!
The Wills of famous celebrities can teach us some valuable lessons about what NOT to do. It is common for the rich and famous to have estate plans, but celebrities make mistakes too and sometimes they can be costly.
Making a Will is serious business. It sets out your final wishes, determines who benefits from your estate, and protects the people you love. Yet the historical record is full of testators who approached the exercise with, shall we say, considerable imagination. This article continues our popular series on extraordinary probate cases drawn from estate law history.
We offer these not merely for entertainment, but because each case teaches a valuable lesson about what can go wrong when an estate plan is ill-conceived, ambiguously expressed, or legally deficient.