Dear Judy,
I don’t want to sound greedy, but our grandmother promised me her condo in Phoenix, because she knew it was just what I needed (I have asthma pretty bad).
I am 40 years old, my mother is dead, and I never married. I have a very low income.
Our grandmother died 4 weeks ago (at 81). In [...]
Dear Judy,
To my real annoyance, my elderly father stipulated in his Will that he wants his original (Russian) last name on his tombstone. He died 2 weeks ago, and now we’re stuck with getting a name on a tombstone that A) bears no resemblance to ours or any of his near relations, since he went [...]
Dear Judy,
I have a moral question, not really a legal question. My brother is, and has always been, short of funds. He had an expensive education paid for by our late mother, and went to law school, and has done nothing with it. Sometimes he works, sometimes not.
He’s in my will as the main beneficiary [...]
Dear Judy,
I’ve been married twice, both times happily, and have daughters (3) from both marriages: the third daughter is really biologically only my second husband’s (he was divorced when I met him, and he got custody). But that third daughter is almost like my own.
I say “almost” because that’s the truth of the matter, although [...]
Dear Judy,
I read your reply last month to a reader whose good friend died — she wanted to know if she could call the widower and reclaim a pair of diamond earrings she had given her friend. I’m in a similar, but not exactly the same, position.
My good friend died of stomach cancer last month, and [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009