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Averting disputes over inheritance

Unequal inheritances may ignite family squabbles, especially those involving deathbed disinheritance, reports PAUL SULLIVAN

[NEW YORK] KATE's father died when she was in college, but she stayed close to his side of the family. Although she moved to North Carolina after graduation, she and her three siblings returned to New Jersey a couple of times a year to visit her grandmother, aunts and cousins. She called her grandmother frequently until dementia made it impossible for them to communicate.

So when Kate, who asked that her name not be used to protect her family's privacy, learned from a lawyer that her grandmother's estate had been split among her aunts with nothing left to her or her siblings, she thought there had been a mistake. Puzzled, she called the aunt who was the executor of the estate and with whom she...

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