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...needed or would even use, but once people started claiming things, I started worrying about what our kids might get to inherit from that side of the family. And then it hit me--I realized that I was willing to fight over a footstool. It was pretty embarrassing." Her husband let the footstool go to a niece...
...feelings such court battles engender, fighting over possessions gets expensive. Probate lawyers may charge from $150 to $350 an hour, making the process pricey when family members pay for hourly legal expertise to help them sort through, say, the tools in the garage. Judge DeShazo's husband, probate lawyer and mediator Ed Smith, has handled thousands of estates in his 38-year career (though never in his wife's courtroom). Smith says he has seen case after case in which people are willing to whittle away at their inheritance in order to try to win a fight over heirlooms. "When...
...into assisted-living facilities rather than remaining in the family home, possessions are being divided while parents are still in the picture. Albin and Rosemary Renauer's mother Rosalene, of Plymouth, Mich., initiated the process with her six children during a period of several months before she and her husband Joseph made the move to assisted living two years ago. The parents took advantage of periodic visits from their children to give them things individually, and then asked them to put Post-it notes on other things they wanted. Son Albin had his sights set on his father...
Rosemary has seen an alternative method for settling family feuds: her husband's grandfather got so sick of the bickering over family possessions that he piled his things on the front lawn and set fire to them. She says she's grateful to her parents for handling their small estate so well. "Considering how there are six of us and we fought like cats and dogs as kids, it's pretty remarkable, but my parents always said they didn't want us to ever fight about money. They told us they wanted us to enjoy our inheritance while they were...
...they had taken 34 years earlier, at their wedding. "We are here to witness an end and a beginning and to share the making of new commitments," said the pastor. "Barbara and J.B. have decided, after much effort, pain and anger, that they will no longer be wife and husband." They were severing their marriage just as it had begun, with a ritual...