How common is it for parents to die without a will, and do family disputes usually follow?
It’s a shocking statistic that more than 70 percent of people don’t have wills. You just kind of assume people are walking around with those things in their lives. It’s a huge, huge issue because there’s nothing like a death to shake people up and make them vulnerable and bring out their roughest edges — and nothing like property to bring out the greed and strangeness in the best of families. That’s why I didn’t write my mother’s will. I talked to my mom about what it would involve and what to think about, but I thought it was important to have another person actually do it. I didn’t want there to be a scintilla of “you’ve got your finger in the pot” among other family members. What kinds of things do siblings usually fight over? It tends to be the things with emotional value. I was just involved in a meeting where there was a fight over a mother’s fingernail polish collection. She had these big long talons and was always known for having them painted up in an interesting way, and the
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