Still Not Moving On Up

A quick Sherman Hemsley update.  If you remember, the body of the Jefferson's star has been in an El Paso funeral home while his girlfriend and a man alleging to be his brother argue over the disposition of it.  A DNA test revealed the man to be his brother, but that fact does not give the man control of the body and has been excluded from evidence.  A trial to determine who has the authority  to bury the body is set for tomorrow.  It is a toss up on whether this case or the Florida election results will be resolved first.

10 Celebrity Estate Planning Mistakes

To finish Estate Planning Awareness Week, Forbes has linked an oft repeated story of celebrity estate planning mistakes of varying degrees.  There are some lessons to be gleaned, but I take exception to the Chief Justice Burger inclusion.   Every version of this link I have seen repeats ad nauseam that he made a mistake by drafting his own will and not creating a trust.  What no one explains is that the Chief Justice drafted his will after his wife had died.  Once she was gone, a trust would not have provided any estate tax benefits.  Just as one  should not rely on the "fact checkers" during this election season, one should not trust writers who endlessly cycle the same point of view on a story without objectively thinking about it.  They might be as credible as Candy Crawley.