Dear Judy,
How dare you give unsolicited advice! I saw what you wrote yesterday to someone named “Cal” (an invented name, I’m sure) about his stepkids and the antiques he was left by the mother.
Well that was my mother and those antiques of hers should have been mine. She said it about a million times while [...]
Dear Judy,
I know this is unusual, and you haven’t seen this kind of question, but it’s important to me.
Can I refuse to inherit my part of my mother’s estate? She died recently — there are three of us left since one of my brothers died two years ago and our father also is dead.
I don’t [...]
Dear Judy,
I’m getting ready to undergo an angiogram — and I’m scared.
I ave been diagnosed with a blockage in the left side of my heart. I have three children and no will. I know it will cost me a couple of thousand dollars to have an attorney draw up a will.
But I will need that [...]
Dear Judy,
Five years ago, my husband left me: I don’t want to sound pathetic, we had a mediocre marriage. But I was surprised. I thought it would go on til…whenever.
It turned out he had a girlfriend, whom he married. We have 2 teenage kids, so things have been civilized between us, despite the divorce. Now [...]
Dear Judy,
A very close friend, a prominent member of the community and serious professional died of a massive heart attack recently and I was devastated.
It got worse after we – her other friends and I — discovered what was in her Will. In it she asked me to help have her poems published. Trust me, I [...]
Almost every week I get an email from someone who’s received bad news, and doesn’t quite know how to tell the kids. That’s bad enough.
But worse, far worse, is dying without taking care of the kids. And by that, I don’t simply mean providing them with enough money to make it through college. I mean [...]
Dear Judy,
I notice you get lots of emails about inheritance and wills, usually from disgruntled heirs or a relative who has her eye on Granny’s diamonds or Persian rugs. So let me tell you and your readers what my Granny did to prevent the feuding, resentment and carping that usually accompanies will-reading.
Our grandmother was really smart. [...]
Dear Judy,
Please solve a dilemma. My husband and I are quarreling constantly.
We have three grandchildren, all in their teens, and our Will makes ample provision for all their (prospective) college and grad school educations.
Personally, I imagine I will be dead within 2 years; I have emphysema and a bad heart. My husband’s health is also [...]
Dear Judy,
My husband and I are quarreling over this, so I thought I’d write. We have 3 grown sons, all of them married. Two of them have kids (our grandchildren); the eldest and his wife don’t want any kids, which makes me sad, but I know, I know, it’s none of my business.
My feeling is [...]
Dear Judy,
My husband’s older brother, who was very wealthy and childless, relied on us — my husband and me — for almost everything in his last months of illness. He had multiple myeloma, and as things got progressively worse, my husband and I, who live nearby did our best to keep things going.
To give some [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009