Legacy Matters

Why you should review your will

Seventeen years is too long to go without reviewing your will.
Siblings in noted Cape family clash over will.

When their mother made a will in 1990, no doubt she thought  circumstances  were quite different.

But in a painful split within the well-known clan, three of Thomas Cahir's sisters allege that the young man who followed faithfully in his father's political footsteps also deceived and improperly pressured his widowed mother, Edith, to write a will that left the family business, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, solely to him.

Said one lawyer disputes will continue to multiply as the assets held by older generations grow in value.

"It's unbelievably common.  The ones that make it to court are just the tip of the iceberg."