At the age of 99, Huguette Clarke, heiress of a mining fortune, executed a Will where she left nothing for her family members and instead, left her $300 million fortune to a future foundation for the arts, her goddaughter, doctor, accountant, lawyer, nurse and to the hospital where she spent the last 20 years of her life. Huguette died in 2011 and her family members challenged the Will, charging that she was incapable and taken advantage of when she executed the Will. The m

Invariably, my clients who sign off on their Wills and Powers of Attorney exhale a sigh of relief. I am not convinced that's necessarily because doing so guarantees them more monetary wealth. In fact, most of my time with clients is not spent talking about money at all but about what it represents. See, the jury is still out on whether more wealth means more happiness (see http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2013/05/10/money-does-buy-happiness-says-new-study/). What has

The Estate Executor has three main jobs; secure, protect and distribute estate assets. What "asset" means has changed considerably. The things that have meaning to people, financially and sentimentally, appear in digital format and they are intangible. You can help your future Estate Executor out so that the intangibles do not fall through the virtual cracks by mapping out a digital footprint as a memorandum that you will incorporate by reference into your Will. In the digi