It certainly pays to be nice to your neighbors. For more than 40 years, Renate and Alfred Wedel lived quietly in a large house with extensive grounds in Waldsoms, Germany, a leafy village north of Frankfurt. Alfred, a self-employed stockbroker,…
Grandma Can Amend Trust Despite False Beliefs
Is it real—or did grandma lack of capacity to amend a trust? It’s the painful question asked when a loved ones’ behavior seems to be on the edge of the shadowlands. It’s worse if its sad aftermath obscures a family’s…
TV’s Wyatt Earp Fought Off a Mob of Unclaimed Heirs
Hugh O’Brian channeled his straight-shooting Old West lawman elsewhere once he became famous as TV’s Wyatt Earp. Inspired by an encounter with the humanitarian Albert Schweitzer, the actor created a youth leadership organization that remains one of America’s most prominent.…
Interesting News from the World of Estate Planning
Learn from Zsa Zsa’s Family Conservatorship Feud Anyone who has a lot of money and gets married nine times (as legendary actress Zsa Zsa Gabor has) can expect a family fight or two about money. Gabor’s current husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, and estranged daughter Francesca Hilton…