Lawyers and banks have wide latitude to control “orphan” trusts established in wills to benefit charities by donors with no family members to oversee distributions.
Authorities announced new charges yesterday in several cold-case murders in a suburban Chicago municipality. But the charges were overshadowed by the fact that they were brought only after police from…
In a case that should strike a chord with other alternative families, two British sisters in their 80s have become unlikely activists for reform of the United Kingdom’s inheritance and…
Leona Helmsley’s dog, a Maltese named Trouble, is to get the benefit of $12 million under the luxury hotel queen’s will. The money is to be in trust, of course,…
Court-appointed guardians for socialite Brooke Astor, who died this week at the age of 105, are challenging her latest will and several amendments to it.
Corrected: When Walter L. Green died in 1993, the prominent Prince George’s County jurist, lawyer and businessman left an estate variously estimated as worth between $17 million and $30 million,…
Most lawyers probably remember a case or two from law school that dealt with the issue of short-term survivors. Estate attorneys often address it by drafting wills that require a…
Public institutions that stood to inherit more money from earlier versions of Brooke Astor’s will are most likely to object to changes made in the final years of her life.
Two children conceived by in vitro fertilization after the death of their father are beneficiaries of trusts he created for his “issue” and “descendants,” a New York judge has ruled.
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