[manaboutown]

A dear friend of mine died at age 66 suddenly and unexpectedly two years ago. She and I used to discuss from time to time how she could best set up her estate plan. She had given it a lot of thought and tweaked it from time to time over the years. Her eldest child was a daughter from her first marriage who had treated my friend like crap for all of the the 27 years I had known her. She had two sons from her second marriage who had turned out fine and were part of her life in every way. She had finally decided to leave the lousy daughter $10K and split the remainder of her estate between her two sons as 50-50 as she could manage. When her will was read her awful daughter got up and walked out when she heard what she got. Karma is a bitch, and a well deserved one in this case. lol.

One of the sons had recently married a woman whose father is an attorney. The daughter-in-law is now stirring the pot alleging that her husband did not get enough.

I cannot lose this creepy feeling I have that my friend had a premonition she was going to die. Over the last year she had too frequently for comfort wanted to discuss with me her estate plan in detail. She kept reviewing it with her financial planner and attorney, too.