It's been a helluva year. With death and serious illness in my social circle, and my striking a half century in age, it seemed like it was time for me to do something enormously adult and, frankly, quite sobering: get my affairs in order. That's the euphemism many of us use for writing a will and thinking about The End. I was scheduled to have a
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My issue, frankly, is my aunt laying the guilt on me about it. I was 19, a freshly-minted orphan; I had no idea there even was a will, and I had no idea what was to come next. No one talked to me about anything. If my mother didn't handle her will well, my aunt handled her relationship with me (in this as in many other ways) much, much more poorly.
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As this is a public post, may I share it with others?
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In the same tone, once he became an adult, we then revised said wills. The other piece of maintaining a will is that you need to update them as circumstances change. The frequency of review will be affected by individual circumstances.
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