A recent article offers an interesting view into what people in the pre-Civil War south did with extraordinary wealth, how they tried to keep property in their families, and how men were concerned about that wealth passing outside the family to son-in-laws.
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People have used their wills to do do some pretty strange things. Some are good. Some are not. Some are downright ugly. All, however, show that wills and trusts and all the other tools of estate planning (as opposed to just estate tax planning) are nothing more than getting the right things to the right people at the right time under the right conditions and care at the right cost. Sometimes wills do something the person always wanted to do. Sometimes it’s to take one last jab. Here are a few examples of the good, the bad and the ugly. |
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