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What We Can Learn From The Golden Bachelor: Property Ownership Lessons for Seniors

ABC just announced the first ever senior citizen “Bachelor,” 71-year old grandpa from Indiana, Gerry Turner! The pickleball player married his high school sweetheart and they were together for 43 […]

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What Can We Learn from an Oil Tycoon? Lessons on Estate Management and Contracts

Autry Stephens, the founder and owner of Endeavor Energy Resources, struck a deal in February of 2024 that would have made him America’s richest oilman and one of the world’s […]

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What Can We Learn from a Hermès Heir? Understanding Succession Planning and LLCs

What Can We Learn from a Hermès Heir? Nicolas Puech, an 80-year-old Frenchman and the primary shareholder of Hermès is estimated to be worth 9 to 10 billion Swiss francs. […]

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What Can We Learn from Shelley Duvall? Common Law Marriage and Probate Lessons

The Shining’s Shelley Duvall passed away this month, leaving behind her partner of over 30 years and a six-figure estate. Duvall apparently died intestate (no last will… Heeeeeeeeere’s Probate!) and […]

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What Can We Learn From an Irish Bachelor? Insights into Last Wills and Legal Disputes

Patrick McCarthy, a lifelong bachelor and descendant of an Irish family that first settled in Minnesota in 1850, passed away in April 2023 at the age of 87. McCarthy left […]

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What Can We Learn from Jerry Springer? Understanding Estate Planning Lessons

What Can We Learn from Jerry Springer? The Internet was duped by a Jerry Springer will-reading video which made it look like Springer fathered two secret children and then left […]

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What Can We Learn From Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom? Insights into Real Estate Disputes and Contract Competency

What Can We Learn From Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom? We already learned a lot from Katy Perry in her last real estate dispute (remember when the nun died at […]

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What Can We Learn From Kevin Costner’s Divorce? Insights into Marriage, Homesteads, and Rumors

What Can We Learn From Kevin Costner? I’m clutching my pearls over here! Kevin Costner’s wife, Christine Baumgartner, recently filed for divorce from the Yellowstone star after 19 years of […]

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What Can We Learn From The Cowboys’ Jerry Jones? Lessons in Contracts and Legal Battles

This is a strange one, even for this newsletter. A woman claiming to be Jerry Jones’s daughter (and her mother) are attempting to get a signed settlement agreement (from 1998) […]

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What Can We Learn From Margaret Brent’s Legal Prowess?

A story from the 17th Century! Margaret Brent was approximately thirty-seven years old when she arrived in Maryland in 1638. At Governor Leonard Calvert’s deathbed in 1647, Margaret was appointed […]

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What Can We Learn from Carl Weathers? Uncovering Lessons from His Estate Surprises

Football player turned actor, Carl Weathers passed away at the age of 76, survived by 2 ex-wives, and two sons. Weathers’ family was pleasantly surprised (that almost never happens with […]

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What Can We Learn From the Master Salesman, Stephen C. Hilbert? Insights into Trusts and Liability Protection

Stephen C. Hilbert: A Case Study in Financial Strategies Stephen C. Hilbert turned Conseco Inc. from a tiny company into a fortune 500 insurance company through acquisitions. After earning over […]

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What Can We Learn From Meryl Streep? Insights into Homestead Law in Florida

It was reported that while Meryl Streep and Don Gummer celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary on Sept. 30, they’ve also been separated for more than 6 years! The two reportedly […]

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What Can We Learn From Pacino and De Niro? Understanding Affidavits and Notarial Verbiage

Actors Robert De Niro, age 79, and Al Pacino, age 83, just announced that they were expecting a baby! Yes, octogenarian fatherhood is a real thing. So real, in fact, […]

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What Can We Learn From Having Sex in a Car? The Surprising Legal Debate

Introduction: This one is just too juicy to pass up. The question for the Courts to decide is, “is it foreseeable that people are going to have sex in the […]

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What Can We Learn From Salma Hayek’s Trust Setup? Understanding Irrevocable Trusts and Tax Implications

What Can We Learn From Salma Hayek? Actress (and my doppelganger?) Salma Hayek and her billionaire French husband, François-Henri Pinault, have established a trust for their only daughter together, Valentina […]

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What Can We Learn From Angela Bofill?

R&B singer Angela Bofill died recently at her daughter’s home in California. The 70-year-old’s passing was confirmed several times by friends and family, as the “I Try” singer was thought […]

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What Can We Learn From Pierce Brosnan? Exploring Widower Tax Exemptions in Florida

Pierce Brosnan became a widower at age 38. His wife of 17 years, Cassandra Harris, died from ovarian cancer in 1991. Brosnan and Harris had one son together, and he […]

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What Can We Learn from a Napa Valley Winery?

Jay Corley, founder of Monticello Vineyards, died in 2016 leaving behind his seven children to run his $30M winery. The kids aligned into two camps, one wanting to keep the […]

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What Can We Learn From Sandra Bullock’s Real Estate Investments?

What Can We Learn From Sandra Bullock? It’s no secret that she’s not my favorite (you can’t love them all), but the thespian, Sandra Bullock, is apparently an excellent real […]

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What Can We Learn From a Forged Last Will?

The Case of Estate Fraud in Kenya This story comes to us all the way from Kenya where the late business tycoon, Balkrishna Ramji Haribhai Devani’s daughter is facing charges […]

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What Can We Learn From Sharon Stone? Understanding Non-Compete Agreements

In 2013, actress Sharon Stone was sued by a former housekeeper, for alleged unlawful termination of employment after being injured on the job. The housekeeper claimed to be under “extreme […]

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What Can We Learn From the Sandals Resort Empire? Insights into Estate Management

Introduction Hotelier and billionaire, Gordon “Butch” Stewart, 79, died on Jan. 4, 2021, in Miami, Florida. The father of eight had several trusts set up for his various family members […]

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What Can We Learn From A Snowbird “Doc”? Insights into Estate Planning and No-Contest Clauses

What Can We Learn From A Snowbird “Doc”? A Wyoming resident (and part-time Floridian), chiropractor Donald “Doc” Taylor passed away in August of 2021 at the age of 81. Leaving […]

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