A Brother's Death Brings Money Lessons to Life
By: Chuck Jaffe, MarketWatch, July 22nd, 2010
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DAVIS, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- Two years ago, my sister-in-law Eileen went kicking and screaming to meet with lawyers and do some estate planning. There were plans to be made, trusts to be drawn, documents to be written, all focused on some unimaginable, unforeseeable time when she or her husband might be sick, or worse.
She didn't want to think about the possibilities. Planning for things like that only makes them happen. As the comedian Gallagher once put it, "Where there's a will, there's a dead person."