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You Better Think (think!) About Estate Planning

The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, died in August 2018. Five years later, the battle over her estate ended after a two-day lawsuit that should allow her estate to finally settle. At issue was that Franklin left two wills behind, both handwritten (one tucked in a notebook under a couch cushion), and they were contradictory. Initially, her four surviving adult children thought there was no will since they couldn’t find… Read More