Category Archives: Inheritance
The sad news that Nicholas Hughes, son of Sylvia Plath, committed suicide 46 years after his mother gassed herself while he slept. The effects of suicide ripple out Dr Hughes’s parents split up before he was 1, his father leaving Plath for Assia Wevill, the exotic wife of another poet. The winter that followed was [...]
A Likker Legend’s Last F.U. Marvin “Popcorn” Sutton was told to report to federal prison tomorrow for an 18-month stint after he was busted yet again for making his famed White Lightning. On Monday, Sutton went out on his own terms. Sutton was one of the last of his kind: an unrepentant Appalachian moonshiner with [...]
They say revenge is a dish best served cold. But few would go as far as Megan Swanston, who waited until after her death to get back at her three daughters for trying to throw her out of her home. Instead of sharing her £20,000 estate between them, it emerged yesterday that she changed her [...]
I got to thinking about that brush when I read that a colleague of Tom Daschle had said that his tax woes — not to mention the lucrative private-sector temptations he gave into — may have stemmed from his desire to make enough money to lay a fat nest egg for his children. It is [...]
My apologies for not posing over the holidays and my best wishes to all my readers for a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. Now catching up on grave matters, the North East Lincolnshire Council bans mourners from laying artificial flowers on graves because of the health and safety risk. While the $10M lottery ticket [...]
So just what do you plan to do with all the stuff you will inherit? Tyranny of the Heirloom You love it; you keep it. You hate it; you give it away. You hate it; you keep it. It seems ” Ambivalence and guilt,..are central elements of furniture inheritance” “It doesn’t go with anything in [...]
Michael Yon, embedded with the troops for the past three years posts this photograph and calls it Thanks and Praise as men and women, both Christian and Muslim, place a cross atop St. John’s Church in Bagdad, a church that had been bombed and burned in 2004 but has since been restored with the cross, [...]
Paris Hilton’s Inheritance Revoked by Grandfather Embarrassed by his granddaughter’s behavior apparently has Conrad Hilton setting up a philanthropic foundation to give away his billions and carry on the family tradition. That’s about $95 million Paris will not get.
One of my new favorite blogs is the Unclutterer which is beginning a new series on handling inherited clutter. How do you unclutter a person’s things after they die? My grandfather died this weekend, and we dread the idea of going through all his things—not just emotionally and psychologically, but from a logistical standpoint. How [...]
