This is exactly why updateing your will and estate is so IMPORTANT. I don’t even have kids and I update mine yearly.

I couldnt agree more!!!!

Also, be very specific in your will as to your wishes. DO NOT SAY divide equally among heirs what a crock!!! The worst comes out in those who think they are being slighted!

Note to self:
1.Update will.
2. Become famous.

Why the assumption that the will will need to be contested? Ledger’s family has stated that they know that he would have wanted his daughter taken care of, and that they will do so. Obviously, I don’t know if they mean “we’ll set half of everything aside in a trust for her,” or “we’ll toss her twenty bucks a week,” or something in between, but, how ’bout we give ‘em the benefit of the doubt and see what happens, first?

Yeah, my mean old mother-in-law left one of her grandchildren her house, and my two sons (ages 25 and 11) NOTHING. Why? She “forgot.” Did we contest? No, but we should have. My 25 year old son is trying to pay back $40,000 in student loans while his college drop-out cousin and her husband live in a free million dollar home near the water in Northern California.

When my mother was given 7 days to live back in May 2006, I asked her to hand write out a will. We thought she probably had one, but we couldn’t find it. She did a great job on it. We closed probate in December 2007 with no legal problems whatsoever. May she rest in peace.

If You Have a will , It is your responsibility to keep it upgraded. but even if you don’t , The court should know that a father or mother would never intentionally leave a MINOR child out of a will. Its different for an adult child. They can work and make their own way. Of course then you have idiots who leave millions to a cat !!! or dog!!! It doesnt take a genius to settle a will, lawyers just try to make it hard because they get paid as long as it is tied up in court. common sence should be the law in defining a will.

You CAN’T just “give them the benefit of the doubt” and see what happens because then the money is legally someone else’s, with no restrictions on what they do with it. Sure, we would hope they would provide for Matilda, but they don’t HAVE to, and there is no way to go back and say “we made a mistake give the money back to Matilda”. Any attorney for Matilda is ethically bound to contest that will and act in her best interest, and “seeing what happens” is definitely NOT in her best interests.

Why not enforce wills As Written? No matter what someone Says ‘they know’ the deceased wanted after the fact. The reality is that most of them have an agenda to acquire some of the estate. Virtually none of them can claim true altruism in the court, even if they don’t benefit directly.

No-One, relative, lawyer, or the state itself, should be able to change Any will unless there is a specific debt unadressed, and even then it should require a judge’s approval and be painful and expensive to discourage would-be thieves.

I love watching your show; especially when Dr Buzz appears. He is funny, insiteful, and very handsome.