• Advice

    Posted on November 28th, 2008

    Written by Judy

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    Can We Edit Granny’s Will So I Get a Diamond?

    Dear Judy,
    I know you don’t usually deal with bequest issues. But this is important to me. My grandmother died at 85 last month, and left everything she had to the five of us — her grandchildren. We are all adults. I’m the only guy. I get all the money, it turns out. The female grandchildren [...]

  • Blog

    Posted on June 18th, 2008

    Written by Judy

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    Talk It Over — Now

    A reader writes in  with a pretty common dilemma: her lawyer has told her to write a Will (smart lawyer!). That isn’t the dilemma, however. The reader is single, childless and 55 years old (meaning she should have written a Last Will long before this). She wants to do right by her two nieces whom [...]